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• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow, there he is. Like, for real.

  It’s okay, man. You majored in some science field, you don’t care much for philosophy; we don’t have to be at each other’s throats here. I’m not questioning the validity of the periodic table, it’s simply a way of thinking about it.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude I understand what you think you are saying and you are quite simply wrong. You don’t understand what the periodic table is if you think it could be constructed in some other way or that it’s organization is arbitrary or subjective.

    No wonder you got the piss taken out of your in that other place.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It can be constructed in other ways. I gave you two of them. Those other presentations are not “less correct,” they’re 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.

      You are also wrong in the basic philosophy of it.

      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 you’re treading into.

      Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do? I’m pretty sure I heard him whining about it when he was also whining about jews cultural marxists.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Neither of the two constructions you listed would result in a periodic table. You don’t this because you don’t actually know what a periodic table is. Try again.

        To help you along, please explain to me: why the elements in the periodic table are ordered as they are? Or more readily, what determines the ordering of the periodic table? I’ll give you two huge hints, and a name to help you. Search the name Mendeleev, and orbital and proton.

        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 you’re treading into.

        So your telling me that I need to be cautious of you derailing the conversation away from it’s original premise?

        Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?

        And there we are.

        No it’s a very Noam Chomskey thing to do. Jordon Peterson, like most fascists, draws largely on the principles of post-modernists. For all intents and purposes, he is one, in that he relies on the idea that truth and reality are relative to justify his arguments. I agree with Chomskey in his critiques of both post modernism and fascism, especially in their arbitrary use of language and sophistry to disguise the hollowness of their arguments.

        That being said, i’ll be keeping you to the premise and the periodic table for this discussion. It need not go further.

        If the ordering of the periodic table were arbitrary, it couldn’t be a periodic table. It is only a periodic table by this very reason. When ordering by orbital and atomic weight, Mendeleev not only came up with a diagram that effectively predicted all of the observable properties of the elements, but also predicted elements which were not yet known to human kind.

        And therein lay the difference.

        Imagine a person is coming up with a dictionary for English. And in a dream they came up with some alternative ordering. And in that alternative ordering, suddenly, they not only had a dictionary for English, cut also Farsi, and Cantonese. Every language became interpretable through this reordering. In fact, the ordering even predicted languages that were not yet known to the person who developed the order. But the order stated that they should be there, or at least be possible.

        This is the difference.

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?

        Peterson is kinda the embodiment of post-modernism, that is, he does all his ideology building by questioning everything else into oblivion.

        Of course, not knowing what he’s talking about is also something very Jordan-Peterson-like so that all tracks.

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