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-HiiiPower- t1_iqzodg5 wrote

Reply to comment by ntwiles 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

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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