![]() ![]() ![]() Scientific arguments are usually based on a disciplined dialectical interplay between theories and relevant experiments or observations. Keywords: Plenitude, totalitarian principle, elements, periodic table, potential existence. Generally the principle of plenitude problematizes the fundamental ontological notion of what it means for a chemical entity to exist in nature. ![]() The emergence and interpretation of the periodic table is one case and the existence of exotic forms of matter, such as muonium and superheavy elements, is another. The paper critically examines how chemical ideas about elements and their compounds have on occasions been inspired by plenitude reasoning if mostly implicitly. This metaphysical idea has in the past played an important heuristic role in the life sciences and can still be found in some areas of modern science. Plenitude Philosophy and Chemical Elements Helge Kragh *Ībstract: According to the principle of plenitude, or what in a different version is also known as the totalitarian principle, what can possibly exist does actually exist. HYLE 25-1 (2019): Plenitude Philosophy and Chemical Elements HYLE-International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, Vol.
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