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Oh, joy. Seems like the difference in our viewpoints wasn't as fundamental as I thought they were at first, after all. I was largely confused there because earlier you dismissed my claim that dimensions in the abstract can't have a limit as being speculative, but seeing your points now it seems I should've specified a -finite- limit. Happy we actually share some common ground after all.Yeah, I never said that criteria was particularly hard to achieve? The point of that was to clear the criteria of "the stuff we put the character above is actually mentioned in the verse". If the verse makes a dimensional argument it will often be the case that it naturally mentions higher dimensions of finite number. Same criteria for infinite and cardinal many dimensions is more rarely fulfilled, though.
But of course, it's just one of the mentioned criteria, in any case.
If it's meant in a mathematical sense of dimensions (as in, theoretical dimensions are included so that possible limits of physics or supernatural power and stuff play no role) then I can agree with that. Like, that's what the compromise with Agnaa was all about. So as long as you keep it to Low 1-A instead of High 1-A, we are mostly in agreement on that.
Though, this still leads to some weirdness in my view. In any verse, we, generally speaking, would assume the continuum exists, no? That's kind of what we do as soon as we assume R. So how come such statements would stop at Low 1-A to you? If c exists, then why wouldn't a space with c-many dimensions also exist, mathematically?
Eh? How come? Especially given the hypothetical says this:I feel like that already fails at the matter of qualitative superiority. Like, this seems to detail a beyond dimensional existence, but I see no evidence of infinite superiority above even the three dimensional universe, much less a multiverse or even bigger constructs.
It was not that he was too big to be bound by them. No, their insignificance was far more fundamental than that. A simple matter of size did not explain this..
Which is what I was getting at in previous points of the discussion.