Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190716003715/@comment-27136653-20190805233525

"Assuming that something is true because an in-game character said it was true is either argument from authority, or argumentum ad populum, depending on whether you're claiming that the character in question is an authority, or claiming that it was the common consensus in Undertale's world."

Then... what are you still doing on this forum? If nothing can be proven, then what is it that you're trying to do?

Eh whatever, I don't even care. As I said, everything is subjective. The scientific method is useless. It will help us deduce things if we have something tangible to start off with, but it won't help us create those tangible things from nothing.

"Yes, the Hard Mode conspiracy also violates Occam's Razor immensely."

I thought you never considered parsimony a valid argument. If you were, you'd for example agree that the HUD doesn't make any sense.

"So we still need to find a better way of determining canon. The common-sense approach is still flawed. So the rest of my post still follows."

The canon is made from objective informative statements which do not include unproven explanations. That's literally it. The rest falls under the head canon umbrella.

And speaking of masks, I consider them less esoteric than Sans's spiel about turns. I mean, you can interpret masks as only slightly changing the meaning of the canon. For example, that Sans wasn't literally speaking about turns, but about something more figurative, such as when one person attacks, the other must defend and vice versa. It's basically what you said, an imperfection in the visuals.

"Remember, we're observing a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional screen. Not everything is going to stay the same after the transition. And other things would have to be simplified so that it will be perceivable on the two-dimensional screen."

Last time I said something like this, you disagreed and argued that the HUD is real and exists exactly the way we see it, which almost made me vomit.