Castlevania Thing

[Ultima_Reality]

So:

Creatures of Chaos (Castlevania)

Creatures of Chaos; or Creatures of the Night, are the main antagonistic forces in the entire Castlevania franchise. While coming in many different shapes and forms, they all exist to answer the call for darkness in the world, whether through the hearts of humanity or from the source they all...

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Enhanced Immortality and Nonduality (Type 1; Vampires are stated to hover between/transcend life and death itself)

To quote the Nonduality page:

For this ability, dualities refer to logical dualities where the duality is between "A" and "not A" where A is some object or attribute. For example, fire and water are not a duality; the duality of fire would be fire and not fire

Yeah, so, Nonduality strictly speaking isn't just not fitting in some pair of opposites. The opposites have to be logical negations of each other: Not "X and Y" but "X and not-X." In this case, it would not be "Life and Death" but "Life and not-Life" (In English: "Neither alive, nor not alive). It's a rather specific thing that, likewise, requires rather specific statements, and the scans provided aren't really enough, as it were, since nothing in them suggests that "Life and Death" are being treated as two exhaustive categories here, so, yeah.

 

[Livinmeme]

Isn't death not life by default?

 

[Sir_Ovens]

If the definition of duality includes the literal categorical opposite, then yeah, life and death aren't categorical opposites.

They shouldn't be nondual.

 

[Livinmeme]

If the definition of duality includes the literal categorical opposite, then yeah, life and death aren't categorical opposites.

They shouldn't be nondual.

That seems like arguing about semantics, death is the oposite of lie in the logical term, not as being the literal categorical oposite, and if nonduality requiered you to have categorical oposites, then a butch of characters shouldn't have nonduality to begin with.

 

[Ultima_Reality]

That seems like arguing about semantics, death is the oposite of lie in the logical term

Death is not the logical negation of life. Inanimate objects are neither alive nor dead, for example, and there's nothing about this that defies two-valued logic.

 

[Livinmeme]

Death is not the logical negation of life. Inanimate objects are neither alive nor dead, for example, and there's nothing about this that defies two-valued logic.

Counterpoint. Also, an inanimate object is not living either, so I don't get your point.

 

[Robo432343]

Counterpoint

seriously???

 

[Livinmeme]

seriously???

I am just saying, that If I had to choose between believing some random dude in a wiki, or an schoolar, I would choose the latter

 

[Robo432343]

I am just saying, that If I had to choose between believing some random dude in a wiki, or an schoolar, I would choose the latter

you do realize what you have linked proves absolutely nothing right??

you probably searched on google, "life and death is a duality scholar article" and hoped that it was relevant to this thread when it talks about something that is not relevant to this discussion at all

and i highly doubt you actually took the time to read that anyways
don't try to act all smart when the very thing you linked as evidence doesn't support your argument in the slightest. It's clear you're trying to sound informed without actually engaging with the material or understanding the topic at hand

 

[Vietthai96]

Counterpoint. Also, an inanimate object is not living either, so I don't get your point.

Ehhh. Ultima actually said this in his comment

Inanimate objects are neither alive nor dead, for example, and there's nothing about this that defies two-valued logic.

 

[Grabbing_dragon]

My opinion of vampires has changed. Two weeks ago, I watched some true harem, and they said the same things about vampires.
Agree with the thread need some statement that says death is the negation of life. something like this

 

[Setsuna_tenma]

agree

 

[Livinmeme]

Oh yeah, after reading trough the page again, I realized that it is literally mentioned so...Not much ground to argue, huh. Agree

Ehhh. Ultima actually said this in his comment

I meant that objects are neither alive, and not alive, instead of dead and alive. It Don't Matter. None Of This Matters.