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Originally Posted by delita-umw-
If I'm interpreting your statement correctly as Knox's 8th is essentially useless for the purposes of disproving a theory, I disagree with your assessment Smeckledorf. Knox's 8th states that "It is forbidden for the case to be resolved with clues that are not presented." Now, of course we run into the issue of whether or not Umineko is a mystery that follows the decalogue, but since it's been stated both in red that the mystery is solvable from Beato's perspective and 07's made it so that the story can be solved within the first 4 novels, I'm gonna work under the assumption that it applies (of course barring that 07 has some ridiculously twisted logic about what is "solvable).
If we believe that the mystery can be solved with the clues available to us, to borrow your own exaggerated example, I can pretty clearly state that any theory involving Abraham Lincoln traveling in time to kill everyone on Rokkenjima is false because there is no clue that would reasonably lead to that conclusion. That is essentially disproving a theory no?
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You are in a way correct and incorrect. You are trying to interpret my statement but you should be trying, in a similar fashion, to
interpret the story. The problem will come to interpretations because people can interpret things in a completely different way. Now, I am going to be an ass and take your challenge to connect Lincoln to this. Everyone dies before October 5th 1985 ends, correct? Lincoln was born 02/12/1809.
10/05/1985
02/12/1809
Those are the dates.
10/22/1980 <- Those are the numbers in Lincoln's birthday moved around.
We have 10/x/198x for the last day anyone is alive in Umineko where x is 5. 220 is leftover. To get a 5 we will take it out of 220. 220/5=44.
We now have 10/x/1985 with 44 leftover. (44+1)/5=9 and we have our last 5.
There we have it, 10/05/1985. But what about the 1 and 9? 1 and 9 can make 19 as in Lincoln the 19th person.
Disclaimer - This is just a joke for an exaggerated response to my exaggeration. I do not actually believe this, none of you should. Numbers can be manipulated too easily.