- 5,458
- 6,526
Faulty Proof:
This will actually be rather short (I think), because neither this, nor this actually prove CM1 for Aeons.
Now, ignoring the egregious (and likely intentional) word salad that you’ll see above, there is actually no proof that Paths are the what-it-is-to-be of any specific notion in the verse.
Not only did Knowledge exist before Nous and the Erudition did, but so did every other single concept in the HSR verse. And nor do the particulars of these concepts vanish or are even affected when these concepts themselves are. As in, Aeons and Paths can literally be destroyed and killed and what they represent stays the exact same because at the end of the day, they merely represent certain philosophical notions.
That’s literally all they are: beings (who might or might not be conceptual) that simply represent or embody certain philosophical ideals. They and their Paths are neither the actual universals nor are they even the source of the concept itself. Like, this is literally told to you in the scans of the very blogs I linked.
And even them being derived from Imaginary energy itself doesn’t help this at all, because when you look at the proof they have like this one:
Also, look at this for a second. It doesn’t even read like an ontological claim. And even if it were one, how would it even prove CM1 in any comprehensive sense?
I mean “seldom the other way around” is literally an anti-feat in the first place and in general why would these people even wonder if notions can affect the universals that ground them because the way they speak about it in the second scan sounds to me like this is not something obviously impossible. I won’t get too deep into this since it’s mainly a HI3 problem and that’s not a game I play, so I’ll leave it to someone else who wants to deal with that slop.
But apparently what those scans are about is of a character who exists as an abstract/conceptual entity, and so… how is this Type 1? Huh? Maybe I’m missing something since I haven’t played the game and brushed it over the word salad that is the VSBW Hoyo blogs, but they can’t actually be using statements for some random woman as proof for CM1? Right? A Type 1 concept can’t just be walking in space as some dude, can it?
In any case, I still think that CM3 should be fine as they’re still conceptual in some sense but simply being the source of some energy isn’t Type 1. Like at all.
Irontomb:
(Edit: this part isn’t as problematic since I slightly conflated 1-A standards for Type 1’s when I first wrote this but it still addresses some info that needs to be altered so I’ll keep it.)
Another point brought up in the reasoning is that only Aeons can kill other Aeons (and therefore somehow prove detachment from the universal’s particulars) but this is just completely wrong as of the recent 3.6 update:
Irontomb, an Emanator of Destruction, can implicitly kill Nous the Erudition.
Not much to say about this aside from the fact that it completely disproves any notions of inherent immutability.
Conclusions:
All Aeons go from CM1 to CM3, and anyone who got CM1 for a similar reasoning does so, as well.
Not going to make a specific claim on HI3 right now since I have yet to play that game (and never will) but the proof is just as lacking there as it is for Aeons. Butttt I’ll leave that to someone else if they have the patience to do so.
Also a pet peave I just have to lay out but the state of the verse is horrid. Too many words that obfuscate the truth of literally anything there and I won’t be surprised if there’s even more wank that I just didn’t bother digging through. Whatever, just gimme some votes.
My Summary | Summary of Opposition
Mod Votes:
This will actually be rather short (I think), because neither this, nor this actually prove CM1 for Aeons.
Now, ignoring the egregious (and likely intentional) word salad that you’ll see above, there is actually no proof that Paths are the what-it-is-to-be of any specific notion in the verse.
Not only did Knowledge exist before Nous and the Erudition did, but so did every other single concept in the HSR verse. And nor do the particulars of these concepts vanish or are even affected when these concepts themselves are. As in, Aeons and Paths can literally be destroyed and killed and what they represent stays the exact same because at the end of the day, they merely represent certain philosophical notions.
That’s literally all they are: beings (who might or might not be conceptual) that simply represent or embody certain philosophical ideals. They and their Paths are neither the actual universals nor are they even the source of the concept itself. Like, this is literally told to you in the scans of the very blogs I linked.
And even them being derived from Imaginary energy itself doesn’t help this at all, because when you look at the proof they have like this one:
The scan itself doesn’t even prove this point because it’s literally saying that a certain concept is imaginary, not that Imaginary itself is a concept.
Also, look at this for a second. It doesn’t even read like an ontological claim. And even if it were one, how would it even prove CM1 in any comprehensive sense?
I mean “seldom the other way around” is literally an anti-feat in the first place and in general why would these people even wonder if notions can affect the universals that ground them because the way they speak about it in the second scan sounds to me like this is not something obviously impossible. I won’t get too deep into this since it’s mainly a HI3 problem and that’s not a game I play, so I’ll leave it to someone else who wants to deal with that slop.
But apparently what those scans are about is of a character who exists as an abstract/conceptual entity, and so… how is this Type 1? Huh? Maybe I’m missing something since I haven’t played the game and brushed it over the word salad that is the VSBW Hoyo blogs, but they can’t actually be using statements for some random woman as proof for CM1? Right? A Type 1 concept can’t just be walking in space as some dude, can it?
In any case, I still think that CM3 should be fine as they’re still conceptual in some sense but simply being the source of some energy isn’t Type 1. Like at all.
Irontomb:
(Edit: this part isn’t as problematic since I slightly conflated 1-A standards for Type 1’s when I first wrote this but it still addresses some info that needs to be altered so I’ll keep it.)
Another point brought up in the reasoning is that only Aeons can kill other Aeons (and therefore somehow prove detachment from the universal’s particulars) but this is just completely wrong as of the recent 3.6 update:
Irontomb, an Emanator of Destruction, can implicitly kill Nous the Erudition.
Not much to say about this aside from the fact that it completely disproves any notions of inherent immutability.
Conclusions:
All Aeons go from CM1 to CM3, and anyone who got CM1 for a similar reasoning does so, as well.
Not going to make a specific claim on HI3 right now since I have yet to play that game (and never will) but the proof is just as lacking there as it is for Aeons. Butttt I’ll leave that to someone else if they have the patience to do so.
Also a pet peave I just have to lay out but the state of the verse is horrid. Too many words that obfuscate the truth of literally anything there and I won’t be surprised if there’s even more wank that I just didn’t bother digging through. Whatever, just gimme some votes.
My Summary | Summary of Opposition
Mod Votes:
- Vietthai96 (Agree)
- Reiner04 (Agree)
- Plank69 (Agree)
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