Cuz the concept of Paths is only immanent in what it predicates.
Well, firstly, to clarify, it’s not the concept-itself, but rather the concept as it is instantiated in the Path. So it is not Aftertaste-itself but rather Aftertaste across Voracity/Elation. Which is obvious, since it’s not as if Destruction only existed after Nanook’s ascension, but this is more of a preface.
And the concept itself is inter-related with the medium by which particulars relate back to, that is, Imaginary Energy. Since the Path is after all just a conglomerate of energy. So the destruction of the Path is consequently the destruction of the concept. Which is exactly what happens with Nous and Irontomb.
Irontomb directly affects the Path by affecting the Erudition constants within the cosmos, that is, intellectual beings themselves. Because Erudition is instantiated as the intellect of things and destroying that intellect leads go the destruction of Erudition-itself. Which is by-itself related to Lygus’ statement on how notions manifest themselves as dependent on the perception of the subjects. This of course being a reference to phenomenology in relation to quantum mechanics.
It’s also, ya know, further dependent on the energy itself to exist, as that is what is used to create the Path when an Aeon ascends. But Aeons themselves are also not the concept-itself, as seen when one dies and the Path remains (also the fact they can turn away from it). Nor is it a true universal, because the concept of a Path as said in the preface, isn’t the concept-itself, but only how it relates to entities within the Path. But to be CM1, you’d have to prove the concept of a Path exists independently of the Path itself, which is untenable since it is arises directly of the Imaginary itself; that is how Aeons attain power.
Also, for example, how Finality relates to Time. The former is the concept of the latter, but it is simultaneously bound to it. And we know this, because the “entirety” of Terminus’ power which is divided is also the “entirety” of the Path’s power itself. But uh, Terminus is bound by Time. Sure, it has as much control over it as one can achieve, but it is still pretty explicitly a temporal entity considering the “entirety” of it travels through it.
