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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop
    http://www.astronomytrek.com/the-boo...dox-explained/

    in which an event is among the causes of another event, which in turn is among the causes of the first-mentioned event.[3][4] Such causally-looped events then exist in spacetime, but their origin cannot be determined.

    The notion of objects or information which are "self-existing" in this way is often viewed as paradoxical,[2] with several authors referring to a causal loop involving information or objects without origin as a bootstrap paradox,[6][7][8][9]:343 an information paradox,[6] or an ontological paradox.[10] The use of "bootstrap" in this context refers to the expression "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and to Robert A. Heinlein's time travel story "By His Bootstraps".
    Quote Originally Posted by Miriam Webster's Dictionary
    Definition of paradox
    1
    : a tenet contrary to received opinion
    2
    a : a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
    b : a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true
    c : an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises
    3
    : one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
    Funny. No definition includes things that "just are". Everything is not a paradox. Please understand the term you use (and even a brief glimpse at its history will show you're wrong) before you attack someone in your defense of it.
    I am afraid you do not even understand your own posts seeing how you constantly give me arguments that actually confirm what I say true.

    First of all: Where have I ever said "Everything is a paradox"?

    Second, everything that you have just shown very well already shows you that a) not all paradoxes are impossibilities and b) that a bootstrap paradox is not the problematic (impossible) thing that you think of. You on the other hand do not understand in the slightest what a consistency (grandfather) paradox is. You yourself so eagerly have explained a consistency paradox: The killing of an ancenstor. That is a consistency paradox. And guess what the Chrono Trigger thing that you are so hot for to be true is if it actually is the way you claim it is? ALSO a consistency paradox. It does not matter in the slightest that "replacing someone with a doll" leads to pretty much the same outcome if that person actually died before. You would still overwrite the true state of reality that existed before and where you came from. You would not need to kill an ancestor. Such a thing already is an open causality paradox of inconsistency. A bootstrap paradox is not open and it is not inconsistent (and perfectly possible with the doll as well through the mere thought "oh, so it was not Chrono who we saw dying"). You provided multiple sources that even show you that a bootstrap paradox is no impossible problem - so you must be making fun of me on a massive scale. As a matter of fact they all state that they (and their similiar "pre-determination paradox") basically are possible.

    Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
    ... before you attack someone in your defense of it.
    You mean like the disrespect that you have shown three times by not even reading my posts when they have clearly shown the differences of certain paradoxes and how a and b is used on x and y as well as the fact that you pretty much make fun of me by half-way confirming things while actually believing you do speak against something? You bring in stuff that in general explains bootstrap paradoxes and paradoxes - stuff that I also did and if you would have understood/read my posts (whatever may be the case) you would have even seen where the same things lie). You are disrespectful, I am direspectful.
    Last edited by Sephiroth; 05-06-2017 at 12:48 AM.

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