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Paraconsistent Physiology Checklist

ActuallySpaceMan42

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A while ago, a thread was made to check the various forms of Paraconsistent Physiology left over from when it was treated as Transduality/Nonduality. From that, a few users and I realized that several verses may or may not qualify under its current requirements. The purpose of this CRT is to give users a clearer standard for checking whether their verse, or specific characters within it, still qualify for Paraconsistent Physiology under the current requirements.

To simplify, Paraconsistent Physiology is a state that defies Classical Logic.
  • For example, if Character A is not Character A, that violates the Law of Identity, since classical logic holds that A is A.
  • Likewise, if Character A is alive and not alive at the same time and in the same sense, that violates the Law of Non-Contradiction.
  • If Character A is neither alive nor not alive, that violates the Law of Excluded Middle, since classical logic does not allow a third option such as “both,” “neither,” or another truth value.
With that in mind, simply being both alive and not alive would only violate the classical logic of one property and would be Type 1. Violating classical logic more broadly would be Type 2, while Type 3 specifically covers cases of many-valued logic, where the state cannot be defined by true, false, both, or neither.

Notes​

  • While dualities can qualify, they must follow a form of yes/no, true/false, or A/not-A. Fire and water may be treated as dualities in fiction, but logically, something is either water or not water, not “water or fire.”
  • The same applies to Yin and Yang. Even if Yin is female and Yang is male, the negation of male is not male, not female. So Yin/Yang only qualifies if the verse treats them as actual logical negations.
  • Lastly, it should be noted that Paraconsistent Physiology does not automatically grant broad interaction immunity. Any resistance, immunity, or special interaction should depend on what the verse actually shows. In other words, even if a character exists outside or beyond a system of classical logic, that does not automatically mean they are immune to everything that operates within that system. The verse must specifically show that their paraconsistent nature prevents certain effects from working on them.
Qualifies:
Disqualifies:
 
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[Reincarnation] has nested duality within it.

  • "Balance is order and imbalance is chaos."
    — Soul of Searing Steel - Chapter 130
[Balance] also explains that the duality it contains the duality of "is" and "is not" and even the paradox of no and yes existing at the same time.

Now, for the existing PP on the profile itself:
 
I will reiterate what was said in the CN thread and state a disagreement with the idea of doing this as an overall thread rather than going verse by verse for such a matter, but if we are going to go ahead with this anyways I'll just go ahead and link this for the list of characters that currently have paraconsistent physiology (or at the very least, who have the category) and quote my past self on discord about verses that don't qualify for such (made in like 2025)
sonic as a whole doesn't qualify (and got downgraded earlier anyways, just didn't get the tag removed)
lucifer doesn't qualify
dark tower maybe could, but the justifications don't work
the unwritten doesn't qualify
everything in martial peak that isn't primal chaos and yang kai don't qualify (and i doubt those two also qualify)
adventure time doesn't have nonduality for anything but the cosmic mind, and everything else just didn't get the tag removed from them after it got downgraded
pretty sure cui heng doesn't qualify with our current standards (unless we accept self/other or unity/division as valid dualities)
cradle as is doesn't qualify by our standards
if nonexistence and existence doesn't count as a duality (which i doubt, but yeah), a bunch of verses don't qualify
GoW didn't lose the nonduality tag when they got downgraded (and even if they didn't then they would get downgraded)
aleph's god doesn't seem to qualify (esp given the page has not a scan or quote on it)
the gods of heaven have 0 scans
HooH doesn't qualify
very unsure about judge holden
li qiye wasn't updated when his nonduality got removed
not sure about xu jingming
Wei Huo may not qualify
wang wei is another page that didn't get the tag removed after a crt
the void (DC) doesn't qualify
unsure about the source
the pixel gun player doesn't qualify (or if they do, not in a way that's relevant for a profile)
if self/other doesn't qualify then sassy is out
raziel doesn't qualify
mystic flower cookie doesn't qualify
the mother of existence doesn't qualify
god of highschool was the verse that started this entire thing, it doesn't qualify
As for verses that do, Wizard101 is the most explicit example ever
In the world of mundane illusion, Death is the absence of Life, Shadow is the absence of Light, and Chaos is the absence of Order. The opposite is also true: Life the absence of Death, Light the absence of Shadow, Order the absence of Chaos. Each defined by its own opposite. Is there a thing that has no opposite to define it? A thing that is its own opposite? Can there be such a thing as Nothing? To let understanding end at what cannot be understood is a great attainment. Those who cannot do this will be destroyed on the Lathe of Heaven.
With Bartleby, The Player, and The Nothing each transcending the boundaries of the Spider and Raven who are Death/Shadow/Chaos and Life/Light/Order respectively, with such things applying to the whole of the wheel/spiral, so they should keep their PP2
 
[Reincarnation] has nested duality within it.

[Balance] also explains that the duality it contains the duality of "is" and "is not" and even the paradox of no and yes existing at the same time.

Now, for the existing PP on the profile itself:
Since I added the verse, I'm obviously biased, but seeing as it's been cleared for Logic Manipulation for similar scans in the past, this is fine.

I will reiterate what was said in the CN thread and state a disagreement with the idea of doing this as an overall thread rather than going verse by verse for such a matter, but if we are going to go ahead with this anyways I'll just go ahead and link this for the list of characters that currently have paraconsistent physiology (or at the very least, who have the category) and quote my past self on discord about verses that don't qualify for such (made in like 2025)
This will be different from that thread, since you can choose if you want to have a verse verified here or not. If you want to do it in your own CRT, feel free, but the verses that qualify or disqualify on this CRT can be used and referenced as well.

This will just be faster for the most part.
As for verses that do, Wizard101 is the most explicit example ever
Yeah, that fits.

With Bartleby, The Player, and The Nothing each transcending the boundaries of the Spider and Raven who are Death/Shadow/Chaos and Life/Light/Order respectively, with such things applying to the whole of the wheel/spiral, so they should keep their PP2
Looked at their profiles, and that checks out as well. Are there any scans about how this affects interactions with those qualities? This doesn't affect whether a character has PP, but it will determine if it's useful in matches.
 
This is for Tensura.
I was gonna revise it anyways, but this helps me determine what needs more explanation and what is already enough and make my future thread better
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These are the following pages:
  1. Cosmology Page (Dualities)
  2. Great Holy Spirit (Nonduality)
The attribute of time in cosmology page also has Nonduality.
That's all. There is another thread going on to give another thing PP1 but I'll assume that is better dealt with in its own thread.
 
This is for Tensura.
I was gonna revise it anyways, but this helps me determine what needs more explanation and what is already enough and make my future thread better
.

These are the following pages:
  1. Cosmology Page (Dualities)
  2. Great Holy Spirit (Nonduality)
The attribute of time in cosmology page also has Nonduality.
That's all. There is another thread going on to give another thing PP1 but I'll assume that is better dealt with in its own thread.
That reminds me, we need to add the scans ( or if it's already there, make it more obvious) that the demons were created by the world itself to counteract the creations of the angels. This adds further proof to their duality)
 
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