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Origin of quantum mechanics in diagonal method, from Carlo Rovelli's Helgoland:

"Heisenberg's idea is to write all the quantities which describe the movement of the electron -- position, velocity, energy -- no longer as numbers, but as tables of numbers. Instead of having a single position x for the electron, we have an entire table of possible positions X: one for every possible leap. ..."

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Wondering if eastern countries would have arrived at a Wu Xing inspired pentamorphic compass.

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Ok, but how is this not just the dialectic? It seems like all you've done is taken Hegel and repackaged him in mathematical/analytic school terminology. Is that the joke, this "continentalism in analytic terms" itself being a diagonalization/dialectical contradiction?

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Oh did you block me little one, or do you not accept messages to your big black tower? Debate me you fucking bitch

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G'day you fucking coward,

Thanks for screwing with my fucking security forces, this is Tomas of the houses Johnson, Dunn, Whistler and Bourke. You mate not only manage to make pointing out the bloody obvious into near unintelligible borderline anti-newspeak (philosophically it IS newspeak, just to make sure you don't get the wrong idea here you fuckwit). Accelerate a bullet through your fucking temples mate, your fucking is not only not working it is the height of counterproductive. It will take a prospect with balls (or not, you fucking cunt) to finish this shit or get the ministry/ CIA or whomever to actually do something constructive. Part of what you ignore in your fucking disposition mate, is fucking basic psychology. Have a bunch of spies sit around fucking with other people, in the throne of God himself as judge of the human race, and yeah you know what they kind of turn into arseholes. So thanks for fucking it up old man. Die

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What would be an example of the diagonal method at play in the life sciences?

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