| I hear you. > We disagree on the definition of "prove". I would not object to the claim if it had used "determine" or "detect" instead of "prove". I do find that a bit odd, though. If I consult the Merriam Webster dictionary, I see precisely one entry under "prove" that says anything related to law and/or courts: > to establish the existence, truth, or validity of (as by evidence or logic) > "prove a theorem" > "the charges were never proved in court" Even there, the only mentioning of court is in the example sentence, rather than the definition itself -- naturally, we want our court system to be based in reasoning rather than whim. Additionally, the meaning of "prove" given by this definition is exactly what the study of formal logic sets out to codify, and given that this is hacker news (where many are interested/involved in computer science and/or formal logic itself), it seems counterproductive to ascribe some legal meaning to the word "prove" here, as it would (to my mind, at least) be quite unlikely for others to do so. |