There can only possibly be seven planets.
>>25505793Based. Aliens are fake and gay.
>>25505793I haven’t read this part of Hegel yet but I assume it’s a reformulation of the ancient Pythagorean maxim on the planets that there must be 10 planets as 10 is the perfect number. Hegel himself cites this in his 1826 lecture on Greece.
>>25505797what is it with Orthochuds and their le aliens are demons bs?
Perfect proof that logic is a complete waste of time. It is merely a statement of shit you already believe.
>>25505797
>>25505818It's a misunderstood reference to Hegel's dissertation. In the last few pages, he makes an aside tangential to his main topic,>It remains to add some observations on the relations of planetary displacements, which appear to be a matter of experience alone. In truth, they cannot be measures or numbers of nature alien to reason. For our pursuit of the laws of nature, and our knowledge of them, is founded on nothing other than the belief that nature is shaped by reason, and that we are convinced of the identity of all natural laws. Whenever those who seek laws through experience and induction happen upon something that looks like a law, they rejoice at their find and the identity of nature and reason therein, and when other appearances are difficult to accommodate with that they feel some doubt in the earlier experiments and try in every way to establish harmony between the findings. Our topic, the planets’ orbits, offers a case in point: While the displacements of the planets suggest an arithmetic progression in which、unfortunately, no planet in nature corresponds to the fifth member in the series, it is supposed that there really does exist between Mars and Jupiter, unbeknown to us, a planet moving through outer space. It is now being eagerly looked for.>Since this progression is arithmetic and does not follow a number series that generates them itself, i.e. not by powers, it is of no interest to philosophy. The extensive work of the Pythagoreans on the relations of philosophical numbers is well-known; so I will now, if I may, consider the traditional number series presented in the two Timaeus texts... If this series really does give the true order of nature as an arithmetic series, then there is a great space between the fourth and fifth places where no planet appears to be missing.His point is that something like the Titius-Bode law isn't sufficient to establish whether there's a planet between Mars and Jupiter. There may be something there, there may not be, but a formulation like such a law of planetary spacings puts the cart before the horse, and so he points to the ancient Pythagorean/Platonic schema to, in effect, make the point, that it's equivalent; you can offer a mathematical formulation saying otherwise, *and it's still not enough to settle the matter*, experiential knowledge of another body is required.Now, as it turns out, Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter; we can leave aside any quibbling over its classification as a dwarf planet or an asteroid. So, Hegel's skepticism and agnosticism over the matter gets a heaping of cold water poured over it, if one's only concerned with the bottom line, but his basic point in the first paragraph above still seems like a reasonable point to make.>>25505932You probably don't appreciate the irony that *that's Hegel's point*.
Hegel is so real
>>25505793I looked up this thesis at some point after someone made a similar joke and the whole argument is basically >Some Pythagoreans use this number series to postulate a planet here, but we might as well use this Platonic number series to show that there shouldn't be one there, so this approach does not really make sense. He's essentially trying to out-play the idealists at their own game, as >>25506010 also shows. I'd agree the argument turns out rhetorically kinda unfortunate after Ceres was discovered, but his point is completely valid, those Pythagorean scientists were right for the wrong reasons.
