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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨days⊠agoIm not being anti intellectual. I simply have no patience for frauds masquerading their metaphysics as philosophy.
In the end you canât argue the point on its merits and are just engaging in sophistry. So weâll come back to the first: you donât actually know what the periodic table of the elements is. You should stop pretending you have a point if you canât make make it.
If you donât understand the difference between metaphysics and philosophy, its probably best you did neither.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨6⊠â¨days⊠ago
Aw, donât be a sore loser.
I canât engage with your point on its merits because itâs not relevant to the argument that Iâm makingâitâs a complete non-sequitur.
You want me to prove that the periodic table doesnât predict undiscovered elements? What does that have to do with where people direct their effort and attention?
This is why the tomato fruit/vegetable example is so useful: itâs about what facts are useful to whom. It actually has nothing to do with the periodic table at all, that just happens to be a particularly prickly thorn for stem majors.