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A smart question about complete conceptual manipulation against all other abilities.

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A thought came to me—perhaps a smart one that no one in this community has considered.

If a character is capable of killing any concept, then naturally it would be able to bypass High-Godly regeneration, various types of immortality, and abilities as well. And do you know how? By killing the concept itself. If the character destroys the concept of regeneration and resurrection itself, then High-Godly regeneration would be negated for that character, because the concept of regeneration has been removed. The same applies to immortality. In this way, by targeting the concept underlying these things, they can be bypassed—and this applies to everything.
For example, a character with NEP 1 could be bypassed by simply killing the concept of nothingness itself. In other words, concepts are basically the foundation of everything. So a character that can kill any concept can bypass all abilities entirely.

What do you think? Honestly, this idea seems like something no one has considered before and it appears logically consistent. What would the staff respond to this now? How was this not taken into account?
 
A thought came to me—perhaps a smart one that no one in this community has considered.

If a character is capable of killing any concept, then naturally it would be able to bypass High-Godly regeneration, various types of immortality, and abilities as well. And do you know how? By killing the concept itself. If the character destroys the concept of regeneration and resurrection itself, then High-Godly regeneration would be negated for that character, because the concept of regeneration has been removed. The same applies to immortality. In this way, by targeting the concept underlying these things, they can be bypassed—and this applies to everything.
For example, a character with NEP 1 could be bypassed by simply killing the concept of nothingness itself. In other words, concepts are basically the foundation of everything. So a character that can kill any concept can bypass all abilities entirely.

What do you think? Honestly, this idea seems like something no one has considered before and it appears logically consistent. What would the staff respond to this now? How was this not taken into account?
This only really works as far as it has been portrayed in-verse. We don't treat "can kill any and all concepts" as literal (cuz that would even include the concept of all the weird shenanigans in powerscaling). We only assume it means concepts that at least exist in-verse.

For example, if a character can kill any concept and in-verse there's NEP1, we can assume he can kill those, but we cannot assume he can kill NEP2 beings the same way.

Otherwise it all pretty much falls down into No-Limit fallacy.
 
Astral Trinity's answer makes sense to me. Metaphysical aspects abilities such as conceptual manipulation frequently breach into No Limits Fallacy when certain things are taken hyper-literally.
 
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