Hey, that guy is a troll and a pretty good one. Block and move on, youâre worth it
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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨6⊠â¨days⊠agoAh, there he is!
Just kidding.
The extreme usefulness of the one periodic table as we know it is why this is so hard to talk about. Philosophically, it isnât any different: it is arranged by human values for human consumption. I think there is likely a strong reason that alien values would converge here, but that doesnât really affect its arbitreity. The elements donât have value unto themselves, they just are.
And there are plenty of different ways to arrange it. For one, if all you care about are the metals for some reason, you can arrange the nonmetals out of it completely. You could keep a linear, alphabetical list because whatever work youâre doing is derived from chemistry but does not actually care about atomic values.
borf@lemmynsfw.com â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
yeah. you donât understand the periodic table.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
Wow, there he is. Like, for real.
Itâs okay, man. You majored in some science field, you donât care much for philosophy; we donât have to be at each otherâs throats here. Iâm not questioning the validity of the periodic table, itâs simply a way of thinking about it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
Dude I understand what you think you are saying and you are quite simply wrong. You donât understand what the periodic table is if you think it could be constructed in some other way or that itâs organization is arbitrary or subjective.
No wonder you got the piss taken out of your in that other place.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
It can be constructed in other ways. I gave you two of them. Those other presentations are not âless correct,â theyâre just less useful. It just so happens that the most useful, scientific depiction of the table to us is also the one that contains the most facts.
Keep in mind, this argument I had was several proxy-arguments downstream of whether or not transwomen are women. So, be aware of what waters youâre treading into.
Isnât the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Petersonâlike thing to do? Iâm pretty sure I heard him whining about it when he was also whining about
jewscultural marxists.