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I'm planning to deal with the Elder Gods (Gaea included) in a future revision, to be clear. Though, as it stands, I don't think the profile is very good at all, for reasons already noted.
First of all about quantity, can inaccessible amount of baseline outerversal reach high outerversal? or would it still be baseline outerversal since it is still the same quality?
It would remain baseline, yeah.
I was thinking to myself about EMR (extended model realism) and apophatic theology...
I mean, generally speaking, infinite-dimensional hilbert spaces are going to be just mathematical models. They're really just convenient tools to do algebra with; so, in quantum mechanics you'll always see a system of x-many possible states being modelled as a space of x-many dimensions, each...
The idea is pretty much that it can't exist as an "object among objects" or a "being among beings" at all; it doesn't exist inside a framework of differentiation and divisions, where it's separated from other things by some particularities and attributes that it has. It transcends such a...
Alright, so, I was told to read Grath's big post. Full disclosure: It's rather late here and I'm lazy, so I'll only read the other subsequent posts later. For this one, I'll just be focusing on the alleged crux of the evidence here. Right off the bat, I'll point out the part that concerns me...
In this case, "transcending all qualities" is really just a provocative (Though ultimately accurate) way to say "It transcends all distinctions and divisions and oppositions between things." As in, it exceeds the differentiation between any plurality of things whatsoever and as such transcends...
Parallel temporal dimensions don't actually net Tier 1. Higher temporal dimensions is what does. Same thing as the difference between a 2-dimensional object and two lines that just stand parallel to each other on a 2-D plane.
True. If there's a fight going on outside of the portal and somehow earthquakes from the outside are felt on the inside, for example, that's problematic. (Though it can be chalked up to PIS depending on how adamant the verse otherwise is about the realm's transcendence and the potential fewness...
That's not actually the argument. The point is less that and more "The building on Earth is a gateway to the higher realm and not the higher realm in-and-of-itself." If it actually was the whole realm somehow circumscribed inside of ordinary space, though, I obviously would agree.
Not exactly...
As a serious answer: I don't believe the House of Ideas' claim to 1-A or higher is invalidated, no. I'm tired as shit right now, though, so more in-depth explanation ought to come later. (Hopefully you people at least realize that the "It's a building in Connecticut" point is really damn stupid...
Depends. "Reality/Unreality" might very well not be a dichotomy that's actually indicative of power whatsoever. For instance, in DC, the Sphere of the Gods and its realms are referred to as "fictions" where the physical realm is reality, but the former are not really ontologically inferior to...
Extended Modal Realism is pretty problematic because it's basically just fancy trivialism in its acceptance of all contradictory things as corresponding to "valid" states-of-affairs. I wouldn't tier it at all, myself, at least not in its full glory. If you water it down a bit it's probably just...
Either way: From what can be gathered, the margin of agreement-to-disagreement is 8 to 1, so far, and Qaws hasn't been around to this in a hot minute despite the recent ping. In my mind there is no necessity for further reinforcement, either, so, I'd say it's fine to call the wraps on this.
There are different types of possibility that you can juggle up in metaphysics (Nomological, metaphysical and logical), so to qualify for High 1-A+ at all, I'd want a statement clarifying that the "Actualization of possibilities" in question specifically refers to logical possibility. So...
We commonly use "n-D" to indicate the dimensionality of characters, so extending the tiers to include "D" ends would probably be way too confusing. I have a fair few, more minimalistic, ideas of my own. Topic for the next thread, as said.
That is true, in a way. "High 1-A+ first type" and "High 1-A+ second type" are pretty closely related, but they're also distinct in that, as said, the latter is stronger than the former. If there was a character of the former type and a character of the latter type in the same verse, and then a...
This can probably be clarified by elucidating the "ladder" going from the two types of High 1-A+ to Tier 0. Basically, I'd say:
High 1-A+ (First type) = Character who can actualize arbitrarily large logical possibilities
High 1-A+ (Second type) = Character who embodies all possibilities.
0 =...
The first paragraph just totally misses the point. This being that Ares embodies the concept of war, as an actual abstract universal, because Gods aren't just dudes arbitrarily claiming that a given facet of reality is their own. So Nate noting that this embodiment spans "every plane and every...
Eru is explicitly stated to not be a "god among gods" but something fundamentally above everything else, and the text goes out of its way to note that the Valar are ultimately no nearer to him than anything else is (Contextually, it seems the statement would apply to them before entering Ëa...
"Are there any 'bounds to a writer's job' except those imposed by his own finiteness? No bounds, but the laws of contradiction, I should think. But, of course, humility and an awareness of peril is required. A writer may be basically 'benevolent' according to his lights (as I hope I am) and yet...
This is the one that actually interests me, to clarify: My response to this is that a lot of the "counterexamples" given are not actually counterexamples, since they're either:
1. Talking about something else that's not really the same thing as what's being pitched as the underlying concept of...