[HayekRocks]

Oh. Then please explain to me how the chemistry itself manages to be ordered into a systematic body. Which it must be, in order to be chemistry. According to what principle does this occur???

The systematic organization of chemistry? I understand most chemists would attribute that to the Russian Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendele'ev, who observed regularities in the properties of the elements, classifying them into the well-known periodic table.

The shape of that table has subsequently been explained by the discovery of atomic orbitals.

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I understand most chemists would attribute that to the Russian Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendele'ev, who observed regularities in the properties of the elements, classifying them into the well-known periodic table.

Indeed, HayekRocks! But note what is implicit in this remark: Mendeleev observed something that evidently existed independently of his act of cognition. He noticed this something was characterized by "regularities." From whence came the regular properties?