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A little change or fix for the Nonduality page??

But what they say about QS here is to prove that "uncountable infinite difference".

No verse can truly prove the "uncountable infinite difference" between dualities, a verse can only state that a character is transcendent and non-interactive from the dualities by nature. That's all. There is no TD like the example you gave, and we cannot use a statement used on physical and mathematical scales, such as uncountable infinity, in a hax like TD.
Yeah, that's just the way the context in the profile describes it, what are the statements like in verses?

Ahh... let me tell you, it's just inherently transcendent and non-interactive by nature againts the dualities, right? (More or less)

This is the only way to express TD in most verses
Again the only way to get QS is not uncountable infinite difference, it is one of the ways in which other ways can be equated to it. The most straightforward way is R>F. Which is masada. Or Apophatic like Fate.
So I don't see the problem here, if you have a problem with the wordings, then that's another issue but this are still uncountable infinite difference when equated.
 
Again the only way to get QS is not uncountable infinite difference, it is one of the ways in which other ways can be equated to it. The most straightforward way is R>F. Which is masada. Or Apophatic like Fate.
Other qualitative superiority requirements, such as R>F or the uncountable infinity, do not give you a transcendence above concepts, but rather allow you to be directly transcendent of that plane itself dimensionally(in terms of power).

Because dualities, by their nature, spread throughout the whole plane and completely control the plane/reality on which they spread.

If we were to transcends the concepts and dualities that control this plane with an uncountable infinite power difference or R>F, as you say, we would have to give a higher dimensional AP and power each TD for this. But we don't do that
So I don't see the problem here, if you have a problem with the wordings, then that's another issue but this are still uncountable infinite difference when equated.
As I said, if we were to transcend these dualities in the ways you mentioned, such as uncountable infinite transcendence or R>F, this would necessarily provide higher-D power to every TD for each dimensional layers. Even such things are far from TD
 
Anyway, this thread is not to discuss QS but to reword the requirement, stop discussing the meaning or definition of QS.
The meaning and definition of QS is important here as the OP does not seem to get it is not just uncountable infinite difference that gives QS.
Other qualitative superiority requirements, such as R>F or the uncountable infinity, do not give you a transcendence above concepts, but rather allow you to be directly transcendent of that plane itself dimensionally(in terms of power).
Again I sent fate scans, is that TD? Yes or No
Very simple question.
Because dualities, by their nature, spread throughout the whole plane and completely control the plane/reality on which they spread.
And root is said not any of them, in fact it cant be described because it is that thing and it is not while transcending it all. That is TD based on QS.
If we were to transcends the concepts and dualities that control this plane with an uncountable infinite power difference or R>F, as you say, we would have to give a higher dimensional AP and power each TD for this. But we don't do that
Actually we do that, and for those that do not qualify for that, that is where non-duality comes in.
 
Again I sent fate scans, is that TD? Yes or No
Very simple question.
Most of the things you posted only prove what you are talking about with transcendence and unaffected state, the other things are their multiple logic states not QS
And root is said not any of them, in fact it cant be described because it is that thing and it is not while transcending it all. That is TD based on QS.
Pein, these are not things that prove QS in TD, these are cases of multiple logics of dualities (type 3) that the root transcends, they have nothing to do with QS and are still not examples of QS
Actually we do that, and for those that do not qualify for that, that is where non-duality comes in.
No, even before of nonduality, verses that qualified for TD without any higher -D AP or "uncountable infinite" difference.

In fact, a character who gets higher -D AP would not qualify for TD in the first place, because their immunity to dualities and transcendence is not because they are a Transdual being, but because of their higher -D power or existence. (So a 5-D character cannot be given TD just because they are transcendent from 4-D dualities, and higher -D does not apply to TD unless it is very specific)
 
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What's the current tally vote?
Not many staffs came, but Qawsedf gave the green light against removing QS(uncountable infinite difference) as long as there is a transcendence requirement rather than being outside of dualities.

Other than that, DeagonX doesn't seem to be in favor of it, and I guess you would agree.(Removal of QS)
 
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By current equalization standards (given composite hierarchies) using qualitative superiority in this context is fine, but that may change with Ultima's revision, so there is no point to debating this right now IMO.
So is the qualitative superiority used in the TD context basically same the "uncountable infinite difference" and "higher level of infinity" that we use in dimensional layering now? Or is the qualitative superiority used in TD to be superior to all quantities of dualities? (Or something like that)

Can you clarify this?


For example ;
Transduality: Characters with this kind of non-duality exist outside and independent of the logical systems in which they are non-dual, they also have superiority againts the all natures of the dualities in that system and completely transcends them, that is a qualitative superiority. Besides immunizing them against the dualities in question, this power also immunizes them against attempts to apply those dualities to them, as they would transcend the scope of the haxes that could do so.
Like this?
 
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In our system of composite hierarchies any difference, including non-quantifiable ones, which transcends a level of existence such that even infinity on that level is insignificant for them are considered at least one uncountable level of infinity greater. More, if the fiction goes on to specify that it is more.
Note that it isn't about being the same as some infinity, but about justifying the same rating.
That's how it is by current standards.
 
On the topic of non-duality.
 
In our system of composite hierarchies any difference, including non-quantifiable ones, which transcends a level of existence such that even infinity on that level is insignificant for them are considered at least one uncountable level of infinity greater. More, if the fiction goes on to specify that it is more.
Note that it isn't about being the same as some infinity, but about justifying the same rating.
That's how it is by current standards.
But if that's the case, wouldn't transcending dualities "at this level you describe" also give us higher -D power and AP? Because what you're saying is not only a superiority over nature of dualities, but also transcending the reality system in which dualities are propagated, and that's basically higher -D AP in this level.


But characters who get TDs basically don't have to have that. And another problem, how do we prove such a physical difference against dualities? Basically, the best way to prove this is to be "transcendent and indepented to the nature of dualities by your nature." Or is that not the case?
 
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You wouldn't have higher dimensional manipulation, but yeah if you have transduality where you have qualitative superiority above reality, you should be a tier higher than that reality.
I mean, really, if you are truly superior to all duality, how would you have limited power in respect to the reality of which dualities you're superior over? If the reality still limits you in some way, are you really superior to all its dualities?

And yeah, the best way to prove this is that you have a qualitative difference of a superiority kind, which is big enough to trivialize the system/reality which that duality is part of. You will probably not often find evidence of this being the case regarding only one particular duality.
It's basically the same kind of consideration you would do for other non-dimension related tier 1 jumps. As usual the detailed considerations are case-by-case and it's easiest when just direct explanation is given.
 
You wouldn't have higher dimensional manipulation, but yeah if you have transduality where you have qualitative superiority above reality, you should be a tier higher than that reality.
I mean, really, if you are truly superior to all duality, how would you have limited power in respect to the reality of which dualities you're superior over? If the reality still limits you in some way, are you really superior to all its dualities?

And yeah, the best way to prove this is that you have a qualitative difference of a superiority kind, which is big enough to trivialize the system/reality which that duality is part of. You will probably not often find evidence of this being the case regarding only one particular duality.
It's basically the same kind of consideration you would do for other non-dimension related tier 1 jumps. As usual the detailed considerations are case-by-case and it's easiest when just direct explanation is given.
I was interpreting it more as "not being affected by all the quantities of the dual systems spread on the plane of reality due to your existence and being superior to them" in this reality.

Because I believe that Transduality is basically a state of existence. And I was mainly in favor of not combining such haxs of existence with Ap and power.

Because all aside, it seems a bit ridiculous that a character with 6-D power and existence would be given TD because he's immune to 5-D dualities.
 
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Well, I believe using qualitative superiority still makes sense here.
Where it places tier-wise is an interesting question. As this involves superiority over all properties it also involves superiority over all qualities.
The interesting question is if we, like for Monads, assume that all meta-qualities are included in 'all' or if we, unlike for Monads, don't assume that. Depending on how we go transduality could imply a number of different tiers.

I have a similar question regarding control over 'all universals' tbh.
 
Well, I believe using qualitative superiority still makes sense here.
Where it places tier-wise is an interesting question. As this involves superiority over all properties it also involves superiority over all qualities.
The interesting question is if we, like for Monads, assume that all meta-qualities are included in 'all' or if we, unlike for Monads, don't assume that. Depending on how we go transduality could imply a number of different tiers.

I have a similar question regarding control over 'all universals' tbh.
Actually, after "True Transduality" goes to 1-A or even 0 with the new system, what I am going to say will not be very valid here, but I wanted to say it anyway.

You say that qualitative superiority (I'm making this comment assuming it's now quantitative superiority) will work in Transduality, but we have a problem, which is that we give more than immunity to concepts that the character with TD is fundamentally transcendent to.

For example, let's think of a character who qualitatively (quantitatively in the new system) transcends all dualities in a 4-D reality and reality itself and has 5-D power, that's transduality according to you, but the problem is that the dualities that this character "transcends are shown in the verse as 4-D" but we use it in 5-D, that's the problem. It's going beyond what the verse shows, and if we say "then this Transduality works on 4-D", because the character already has a 5-D power, he can be immune to this reality and 4-D dualities without Transduality because of his 5-D power, in short, if I don't include the new system, I think that qualitative superiority is an unnecessary need in Transduality.


But yes, the system has changed and now that you can jump to 1-A or 0 with Transduality. So, I don't think this will matter much in the new system but i wanted to say this anyway...

Apart from that, how be combine Transduality and Monad is up to you and Ultima. :rolleyes:
 
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Well, I believe using qualitative superiority still makes sense here.
Where it places tier-wise is an interesting question. As this involves superiority over all properties it also involves superiority over all qualities.
The interesting question is if we, like for Monads, assume that all meta-qualities are included in 'all' or if we, unlike for Monads, don't assume that. Depending on how we go transduality could imply a number of different tiers.

I have a similar question regarding control over 'all universals' tbh.
Actually, after "True Transduality" goes to 1-A or even 0 with the new system, what I am going to say will not be very valid here, but I wanted to say it anyway.

You say that qualitative superiority (I'm making this comment assuming it's now quantitative superiority) will work in Transduality, but we have a problem, which is that we give more than immunity to concepts that the character with TD is fundamentally transcendent to.

For example, let's think of a character who qualitatively (quantitatively in the new system) transcends all dualities in a 4-D reality and reality itself and has 5-D power, that's transduality according to you, but the problem is that the dualities that this character "transcends are shown in the verse as 4-D" but we use it in 5-D, that's the problem. It's going beyond what the verse shows, and if we say "then this Transduality works on 4-D", because the character already has a 5-D power, he can be immune to this reality and 4-D dualities without Transduality because of his 5-D power, in short, if I don't include the new system, I think that qualitative superiority is an unnecessary need in Transduality.


But yes, the system has changed and now that you can jump to 1-A or 0 with Transduality. So, I don't think this will matter much in the new system but i wanted to say this anyway...

Apart from that, how be combine Transduality and Monad is up to you and Ultima. :rolleyes:
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Well, I believe using qualitative superiority still makes sense here.
Where it places tier-wise is an interesting question. As this involves superiority over all properties it also involves superiority over all qualities.
The interesting question is if we, like for Monads, assume that all meta-qualities are included in 'all' or if we, unlike for Monads, don't assume that. Depending on how we go transduality could imply a number of different tiers.
Transduality and the new definition of Tier 0 are relatively similar in that they both involve transcending "duality" (Distinction) in some fashion. It's just that Transduality extends the principle to contradictories whereas Tier 0 doesn't inherently involve that and centers more around transcending all contraries (While not excluding the possibility of a character doing the same thing to contradictories too, if a verse chooses to reify those). So, the latter is "Transcends all As and Bs" whereas the former is "Transcends A and ~A and also transcends B and ~B."

Obviously Transduality in that sense runs afoul of non-contradiction, and whether the "Neither A nor ~A" bit is something that's even meaningful for tiering is up to debate as well (Since as said whether "non-Aness" is something to be transcended depends on the verse ultimately). So personally I say we rate actual Transduality as Tier 0 insofar as it implies transcendence over all qualities, whereas the logic-breaking shenanigans are pretty much excess quirks that don't contribute anything to the tiering per se.

I have a similar question regarding control over 'all universals' tbh.
Pretty interesting question, too. I'd sub-distinguish a little there: As regards essences/concepts/universals, there are definitely those that "reset" when crossing between the levels of the Tiering System. For example, a higher R>F layer perceives a lower level as non-dimensional and below even potential 0-D structures native to itself, whereas the lower layer perceives the higher one as above all dimensions, such that being 3-D in the higher layer doesn't mean you are 3-D in the lower one and vice-versa. In that vein, the two layers don't really share a notion of dimensionality at all (Unless the verse establishes some platonic domain that equally pervades all layers, I guess), and the same would apply to whatever supervenes on this.

Meanwhile there's also things that most certainly don't reset in that process. I'd honestly place logical necessities and such among those. If a verse considers those to be actual subsisting things defining and underlying reality, I don't believe it'd make sense to restrict them to any given layer. (And under the above, if those logical necessities exist in some platonic world side-by-side with more "meager" ideas, then the latter would probably receive a sort of scaling from them, which they wouldn't otherwise get). But there's the matter of whether the verse does that to begin with.

Of course, this is pretty case-by-case too. For instance you could make a parody argument that making 1 + 1 equal 3 is actually a High 1-A+ feat, because 1 + 1 = 2 is ostensibly a necessarily true proposition and so true in all possible worlds. But the fact of the matter is that, if a character could make it so 1 + 1 ≠ 2 at all, then that's because 1 + 1 = 2 was never a necessary truth to begin with, which collapses the initial reason for it existing in all possible worlds at all. So in my eyes it'd be less a feat for the character and more an anti-feat for the concept, so to speak.
 
Transduality and the new definition of Tier 0 are relatively similar in that they both involve transcending "duality" (Distinction) in some fashion. It's just that Transduality extends the principle to contradictories whereas Tier 0 doesn't inherently involve that and centers more around transcending all contraries (While not excluding the possibility of a character doing the same thing to contradictories too, if a verse chooses to reify those). So, the latter is "Transcends all As and Bs" whereas the former is "Transcends A and ~A and also transcends B and ~B."

Obviously Transduality in that sense runs afoul of non-contradiction, and whether the "Neither A nor ~A" bit is something that's even meaningful for tiering is up to debate as well (Since as said whether "non-Aness" is something to be transcended depends on the verse ultimately). So personally I say we rate actual Transduality as Tier 0 insofar as it implies transcendence over all qualities, whereas the logic-breaking shenanigans are pretty much excess quirks that don't contribute anything to the tiering per se.
As long as the transduality is sufficiently directly established to function that way it makes sense.
However, I do wonder whether transduality in that sense shouldn't be something like "above baseline Tier 0" if established in a sufficiently explicit way regarding a certain property.

To explain my line of thought: We don't completely discard powers that violate logic in some manner. Paradox and logic manipulation powers do exist and we take their functions as fact. Take Venuzdonoa for example.
What we don't do is extrapolate from that, as by the principle of explosion that's a futile endeavor. So, saying the Venuzdonoa can violate logic to hit something it missed is fine, as that's an explicitly stated logic violation it can do. Saying that it can violate logic to become Tier 0 would not be, as that extrapolates the idea of violating logic to realms not stated.

So, to get back to the main topic, logically consistent Monads are within the category of ~A, which transdual Monads should transcend. Now, I believe in the Tiering Revision thread you argued that transcending that is paradoxical in some way and it certainly is if it's done via transduality specifically. However, I think given how we handle paradoxical powers, the transcendence itself (if explicitly stated) is acceptable. Just no further extrapolation from that. The logical contradiction directly stated to be applicable should be acceptable. Don't you think so?
Pretty interesting question, too. I'd sub-distinguish a little there: As regards essences/concepts/universals, there are definitely those that "reset" when crossing between the levels of the Tiering System. For example, a higher R>F layer perceives a lower level as non-dimensional and below even potential 0-D structures native to itself, whereas the lower layer perceives the higher one as above all dimensions, such that being 3-D in the higher layer doesn't mean you are 3-D in the lower one and vice-versa. In that vein, the two layers don't really share a notion of dimensionality at all (Unless the verse establishes some platonic domain that equally pervades all layers, I guess), and the same would apply to whatever supervenes on this.

Meanwhile there's also things that most certainly don't reset in that process. I'd honestly place logical necessities and such among those. If a verse considers those to be actual subsisting things defining and underlying reality, I don't believe it'd make sense to restrict them to any given layer. (And under the above, if those logical necessities exist in some platonic world side-by-side with more "meager" ideas, then the latter would probably receive a sort of scaling from them, which they wouldn't otherwise get). But there's the matter of whether the verse does that to begin with.

Of course, this is pretty case-by-case too. For instance you could make a parody argument that making 1 + 1 equal 3 is actually a High 1-A+ feat, because 1 + 1 = 2 is ostensibly a necessarily true proposition and so true in all possible worlds. But the fact of the matter is that, if a character could make it so 1 + 1 ≠ 2 at all, then that's because 1 + 1 = 2 was never a necessary truth to begin with, which collapses the initial reason for it existing in all possible worlds at all. So in my eyes it'd be less a feat for the character and more an anti-feat for the concept, so to speak.
Hmmm... that's pretty interesting. I think one could see it that way, although I think logic and the like could just as well reset between R>F. Although that basically goes back into the arguments on why I think R>F may as well add a layer to anything, including Monads, so I guess it isn't worth to get into that debate.

However, on the last paragraph I would see things differently. For mathematics as an example a bunch of asterisks are needed given definition, but if we assume it's formulated to be a proper logical paradox (or we replace that example with something that is) I wouldn't say that this discredits it being a fundamental truth. Or rather, as soon as we talk about logic manipulation powers such a thing as a necessary truth doesn't exist anymore. Otherwise, what would be manipulated wouldn't really have been logic, but just a pseudo-law of nature.
IMO when we deal with a logic-breaking ability it makes less sense to speculate that the verse just had a secret altered logic to begin with and the power doesn't do what it says, than to accept that it actually breaks logic proper. Finding a way for logic manipulation to break real logic just seems like it would be reading something into the work that is not meant.

That isn't to say that I want to upgrade every logic manipulator to Tier High 1-A+ or anything. Why? Well, as mentioned above, we don't extrapolate from logic-breaking powers as doing so makes little sense. An argument of the style "My power breaks logic to make 1+1=3 and logic should apply to all possible worlds, hence my power should alter all possible words" has a step of inference from a logically paradox starting point. Hence that wouldn't follow our general style of handling logic violating powers.
 
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I think we are in agreement for the most part. Well, if we leave my ramblings about Tier 0 stuff aside for now, which might be the best move, as it can probably be better covered in a designated thread for the topic at another time.

I think the relevant question left to debate in this thread is mainly the last part: Which of our two proposals we use for the reasoning to justify logic manipulation / violation in general not being High 1-A+.
To summarize my take again:
I'm not much of a fan of saying that logic which can be broken was never a true logic law to begin with. That seems to alter the spirit of the ability into something it wasn't supposed to be. I think it's better to keep a rule-breaking power as such rather than to try to fit it into a greater network of rules that wasn't intended. One could also argue about it still being true for the subset of all possible worlds where the rule was true.
In any case, I think it's more elegant to just use the principle that logic-breaking powers don't get extrapolated beyond their directly suggested applications and hence aren't automatically Tier 1 stuff.
 
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