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Cthris
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Summerleaf said :
I wonder if they were as simple as something like wood, metal, and lightning, or something so abstract that we can't even imagine it (like how it's impossible to imagine colors outside of our visible spectrum).
Hey man, that doesn't make any sense. Abstract means only existing in the mind and not having any physical existence. Magic in Runescape is made up of energy, and energy is tangible/physical. That's like saying physical non-physical matter. It's completely contradictory.
It's not contradictory tho, you just don't know your vocabulary.
The emphasis being on it's synonyms such as the word THEORETICAL. Even my computer has it in all caps.
That, or you're just not understanding what I said.
Edit: Re-reading this, I realize it sounds kind of hostile. That is not my intention, I'm just tired.
Summerleaf said :
I wonder if they were as simple as something like wood, metal, and lightning, or something so abstract that we can't even imagine it (like how it's impossible to imagine colors outside of our visible spectrum).
Hey man, that doesn't make any sense. Abstract means only existing in the mind and not having any physical existence. Magic in Runescape is made up of energy, and energy is tangible/physical. That's like saying physical non-physical matter. It's completely contradictory.
It's not contradictory tho, you just don't know your vocabulary.
The emphasis being on it's synonyms such as the word THEORETICAL. Even my computer has it in all caps.
That, or you're just not understanding what I said.
It's missing, therefor Gielinor's Magic is unable to reflect it. Making the concept of it theoretical, and theorizing on its properties ABSTRACT thought.
Edit: Re-reading this, I realize it sounds kind of hostile. That is not my intention, I'm just tired.
28-Jan-2017 05:38:03 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2017 05:52:42 by Summerleaf
Summerleaf
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It's not contradictory tho, you just don't know your vocabulary.
The emphasis being on it's synonyms such as the word THEORETICAL. Even my computer has it in all caps.
That, or you're just not understanding what I said.
Okay, I can kind of see what you are getting at, the problem is you are trying to use abstract and theoretical as perfect synonyms when they are imperfect.
One synonym =/= another synonym. They are simply words that can replace one another in CERTAIN circumstances, but not all circumstances. For example pants and breeches are synonyms, but cannot be used completely interchangeably.
Some things can be theoretical while not being abstract. For example, higgs boson was a theoretical particle (because we could only speculate about its exsistance), but it's existence was concrete due to it actually existing in the physical world (though theory behind its existence was abstract).
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Not to mention, if you were using the word abstract to mean theoretical that's another contradiction. You cannot have something so theoretical that it can't be imagined. Something can only be theoretical if we can imagine it lol.
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However, if something once existed in reality and then reality was deprived of it, that would only make it abstract if we were able to maintain a concept of that item. (Assuming that the past ceases to exist, otherwise it would exist concretely in the past). If it's nature was to be unimaginable then it wouldn't be abstract because no one could make it into thought or idea.
It's not contradictory tho, you just don't know your vocabulary.
The emphasis being on it's synonyms such as the word THEORETICAL. Even my computer has it in all caps.
That, or you're just not understanding what I said.
It's missing, therefor Gielinor's Magic is unable to reflect it. Making the concept of it theoretical, and theorizing on its properties ABSTRACT thought.
Okay, I can kind of see what you are getting at, the problem is you are trying to use abstract and theoretical as perfect synonyms when they are imperfect.
One synonym =/= another synonym. They are simply words that can replace one another in CERTAIN circumstances, but not all circumstances. For example pants and breeches are synonyms, but cannot be used completely interchangeably.
Some things can be theoretical while not being abstract. For example, higgs boson was a theoretical particle (because we could only speculate about its exsistance), but it's existence was concrete due to it actually existing in the physical world (though theory behind its existence was abstract).
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Not to mention, if you were using the word abstract to mean theoretical that's another contradiction. You cannot have something so theoretical that it can't be imagined. Something can only be theoretical if we can imagine it lol.
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However, if something once existed in reality and then reality was deprived of it, that would only make it abstract if we were able to maintain a concept of that item. (Assuming that the past ceases to exist, otherwise it would exist concretely in the past). If it's nature was to be unimaginable then it wouldn't be abstract because no one could make it into thought or idea.
28-Jan-2017 06:12:51 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2017 06:48:00 by Cthris
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