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Unlimitles t1_iqykbrj wrote

Reply to comment by KypDurron in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

yes it does matter....it's like you're trying to rewrite how we look at how history has made nearly all discovery and applying the way we react to people using their own mind and attempting to make discoveries today, people didn't "internet react" to people having original thoughts back then like they do today.

His "perception" to pay attention to things that other people were overlooking for years was right whether you or anyone else could see it which is the point of discovery.

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ntwiles t1_iqz3bvc wrote

I see why you would feel that way, and maybe you’re looking at it the right way idk. But I personally don’t think so. What if I were to just start making a thousand guesses a day? No basis, I’m just going for the shotgun strategy. One of them will end up being right and I’ll be a genius. That’s a dramatic example but it’s meant to be, just to shine a light on the idea that just being the first to propose an idea without any evidence might not have a lot of importance to it.

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-HiiiPower- t1_iqzodg5 wrote

Well did this guy just start making a thousand guesses a day? I mean if not then, yea, what you so eloquently typed out is quite dramatic and a mildly ignorant straw man scenario based off what seems like some pretty strong anti-intellectualism.

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ntwiles t1_ir0z49b wrote

I tried specifically calling out that this was a thought experiment and not a realistic scenario, and you still made the argument you did..extreme scenarios are presented all the time in logic and philosophy for the sake of making it easier to a see a hidden truth.

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-HiiiPower- t1_ir10gzy wrote

"Thought experiment"

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ntwiles t1_ir10kak wrote

Why are you getting so aggressive? I feel like I was very nice in the first comment. It is a thought experiment.

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-HiiiPower- t1_ir1oxgz wrote

Putting two words in quotations is aggressive. Got it.

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ntwiles t1_ir1tg7e wrote

Now you’re just playing dumb. I think we’re done here.

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-HiiiPower- t1_ir1u6qy wrote

> I think we're done here.

Finally talking some sense.

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