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Pretty much this is by definition impossible; for example, Betrand Russell postulated a teapot orbiting the sun - how would you prove it wasn't there? Another example would be to claim that there was a grain of sand somewhere with your name engraved upon it; to prove that not true, one would have to examine every grain of sand in the world. To resolve this type of problem, philosophers invoke Occam's Razor - explanations should use the fewest number of assumptions.

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