Can anyone disprove the existence of the tooth fairy?

Can anyone offer any evidence that proves the Tooth Fairy is illusionary and not in fact real?

Is there anyway that you could be mistaken in your assertion? In other words play devils advocate and offer a possibility against your own statement?


If that rambling mess up above makes no sense to me in the morning I blame it on the Xanax.

 

No, it is impossible to disprove, beyond the shadow of doubt, the nonexistence of the Tooth Fairy. Or anything, for that matter. Lack of observation ≠ nonexistence, but neither does that mean you should assume that it does exist. The correct answer is a humble "I do not know."

 

You and I both know she ain't real so I ain't gotta prove shit

 

Critical thinking says that anything that can be sensibly believed could also be disproved (but simply, hasn't been). The Tooth Fairy idea could not be disproved, so critical thinking tells us we shouldn't believe in it

-Matt

 

This is a more elaborate wording of what I was going to post.

 

One need not prove non-existence , it is one who makes claim who is also obligated to prove it.

In this case, there is no need to disprove the existence of the tooth fairy, but if one claimed that tooth fairies exist he or she would also have to prove it. :cheers2:

 

no i can't... but i can offer you a dead toothfairy to prove that she did once exist.... in my defense, your honor, she was costing me an arm and a leg now that i am Grandmother to so many young children...

 

I know a gay dentist, does that count?

 

if she did exist, then she either must have some other job, or she is not doing her job. if she is not doing her job, then she has no reason to exist.


seriously though,
what does the tooth fairy do ? give nickels to kids at night ? but it is not the tooth fairy whom gives the kids money, it is the parents. so the tooth fairy is merely an alias.

 

Alright, time to break some hearts. The toothfairy does exist, its your mom & dad taking your little kid teeth for themselves in old age when they lose theirs. And whats even worse is all they left you for one of those teeth was a quarter. Its a conspiracy I tell you

 

^ Good response. It is a debating impossibility (or if not impossibility, then at the least incredibly difficult) to prove something does not exist, and so for me it is easier to say that it is highly doubtful that the tooth fairy is in any existence beyond parental lying, but one can not know anything for sure.

 

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to prove or disprove the tooth fairy

one must first come to a base definition of tooth fairy

is it people who put money under pillows in the guise of a magical mythical fairy

or is it a magical mystical fairy that appears when someone put a tooth under their pillow

once you have a base definition of what you are trying to prove

what point of relativity is the proof based upon

our ability to observe here and now in this time and space place ??

or conceptually throughout all of time ??

 

you can prove she doesn't exist. just think, with all those millions of kids 'round the world where the hell does she get enough spare change to give it all to them. i think that the mint might notice if a couple million dollors appeared every day throughout different countries. im sure he / she is way too busy to look under every damn couch cushon in any given country.

 

"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge"
-Confucius

 

she's real god dammit