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Old 2010-09-12, 19:30   Link #4661
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She never said that it applied to all games, and she couldn't fortell that the Red Truth was always going to be truth. But since she applied it to the base of the game, it meant that it applied to all games, past-present-future wise.
Bernkastel clearly restated that backbone rule in Episode 5:
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It would never be in red if it wasn't applicable at that given context. Let's find the loophole somewhere else than the basis, alright?

It isn't really an issue with Ep6 and 7, since the GM itself has changed the game to fit Erika in the lot.
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The problem I see with this interpretation is that you are not supposed to be able to pronounce a false red truth. According to what we see in EP4 if you try that you choke.

This, or Ryuukishi forgot that if you try to say false statements in red you choke.
I think what he's getting at is that it isn't a false statement. She really is the 18th human, but that person happens to be nonexistent. There's no contradiction as long as she doesn't exist.
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But that makes no sense... if the 18th human doesn't exist, then no one is the 18th human. If someone is 18th human, then the 18th human exists.
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If someone nonexistent is the 18th human, then the 18th human doesn't exist.
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Old 2010-09-12, 20:34   Link #4665
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That's illogical. If that was true you could say in red stupid statements like:

The 19th human on Rokkenjima is Santa Klaus.
Rosa's second child is Frankenstein
Battler's wife is Tinkerbell


And then you would say that since Frankenstein, Santa Klaus and Tinkerbell do not exist, then there's no 19th human, no Rosa's second child and no Battler's wife.
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Old 2010-09-12, 20:49   Link #4666
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The problem I see with this interpretation is that you are not supposed to be able to pronounce a false red truth. According to what we see in EP4 if you try that you choke.

So Erika can't possibly pronounce a red statement that is wrong.
Mind, neither Battler can.

The logic error is only indirectly related to the red truths. The logic error happens when the Game Master creates a game with contradictions. As we have seen in EP6, a logic error can happen during the creation phase, however as long as the GM can erase the error, it's all right.

A logic error in a game is the only case where you can state two conflicting reds, because that paradox really exists inside the game. However in that case the GM can't take back his move and we know what happens.

So in the end Erika couldn't possibly say that red, unless it wasn't the truth somehow.
This, or Ryuukishi forgot that if you try to say false statements in red you choke.
Actually, with this I bring back a concept I might have mentioned before. There are certain fundamental truths, and certain parameter truths.

The fundamental truths are the ones that say things like Ushiromiya Battler's mother is Ushiromiya Asumu. Perhaps these are likened to "background" information that forms the foundation of the game. These do not change.

Parameter truths are used to create the mysteries of the game. As shown in EP6, these are what can create logic errors. You can as many of them in red as you want, but it's only okay as long as there is another possibility for the solution to the puzzle.

This is my interpretation of why some reds cause a "logic error" while some cannot be spoken at all.

To reiterate, there is no difference in mechanic between these kinds of red truths. It's not like Ryukishi himself has two kinds of red truths. These are almost completely arbitrary names and categorizations but may assist in the understanding of the rules of the game.

EDIT: I guess I can say this much:

Fundamental truths stay the same during each of the games. Like you cannot say "Rosa Ushiromiya is a male" unless she somehow IS a male.
Parameter truths can change each game and are used to construct puzzles. Example: Kyrie is dead.
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Old 2010-09-12, 20:55   Link #4667
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There is nothing stopping a new game master from using a different base than Beato would. Which is why these reds can't apply to future games at the time. She has no way to restrict a different person from playing with her gameboard like that no matter how you slice it.

As for the red that's an agreement between Battler and Beato. That's more of a matter of trust.
If it's her game board, I imagine that you have to follow her rules. In episode 5, it was clearly stated that it was Beato's game board, meaning that they were following her rules. They can't increase it by one because then they would be violating one of her rules (No more than 17 people), so they lump two people together (perhaps this is why Shannon and Kanon are always seen together?) and create the illusion of 18 people when there's really 17. In episode 6, Battler recognizes Shannon and Kanon as separate people, which pushes Erika into the 18th person slot, who cannot exist.

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That's illogical. If that was true you could say in red stupid statements like:

The 19th human on Rokkenjima is Santa Klaus.
Rosa's second child is Frankenstein
Battler's wife is Tinkerbell


And then you would say that since Frankenstein, Santa Klaus and Tinkerbell do not exist, then there's no 19th human, no Rosa's second child and no Battler's wife.
Actually, it would be the other way around. Since there is no 19th human, Rosa has no second child, and Battler has no wife, then Frankenstein, Tinkerbell, and Santa don't exist. If you stated that Santa, Frankenstein and Tinkerbell don't exist, you can argue that someone else with the same name is. Like, for example, the whole 'Ushiromiya Battler is Asumu's kid, but not this Ushiromiya Battler' thing that was brought up in EP4.

It's like having an imaginary friend named Fred, and because imaginary people do not exist in the real world, Fred does not exist.
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If it's her game board, I imagine that you have to follow her rules. In episode 5, it was clearly stated that it was Beato's game board, meaning that they were following her rules. They can't increase it by one because then they would be violating one of her rules.
Except they do and they openly admit they are.

She does not exist in the worlds before this one, nor does she influence them.
LD:"Of course, it's plus 1 over the previous number. But don't worry. Furudo Erika only increases it by one person."

Furthermore Erika isn't the only person they are doing this with. There is also the man from 19 years ago and Battler openly considers the problem of purupurupiko man. I think it's safe to say that although there is an illusion of a person probably they aren't considering this as a rule that has to absolutely followed. If it were I don't think we'd have new characters appearing all the time in each episode. It's pretty much a rule now that the closed circle thing isn't respected by anyone in the Umineko universe. Even GM Battler doesn't follow it.

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It's like having an imaginary friend named Fred, and because imaginary people do not exist in the real world, Fred does not exist.
ugh... Now I'm getting Drop Dead Fred flashbacks...

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Old 2010-09-13, 14:41   Link #4669
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Actually, it would be the other way around. Since there is no 19th human, Rosa has no second child, and Battler has no wife, then Frankenstein, Tinkerbell, and Santa don't exist. If you stated that Santa, Frankenstein and Tinkerbell don't exist, you can argue that someone else with the same name is. Like, for example, the whole 'Ushiromiya Battler is Asumu's kid, but not this Ushiromiya Battler' thing that was brought up in EP4.

It's like having an imaginary friend named Fred, and because imaginary people do not exist in the real world, Fred does not exist.

Yeah okay but that doesn't change the fact that your interpretation would allow those ridiculous red truths to be effective. And I really do not think it is possible.

"Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" is not a truth, and likewise "Erika is the 18th human" is not a truth if Erika doesn't exist.
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Yeah okay but that doesn't change the fact that your interpretation would allow those ridiculous red truths to be effective.
There are alot of ridiculous red truths because of the endless amount of 'interpretations' one can make from them.
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"Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" is not a truth
You can't deny your own red truth, but, whatever.

Tinkerbell is Battler's wife, but not this Battler, but the other Battler that was never brought up ever since EP4. Since there are no hintings of humans who carry the same name as the others, this can only be possible for Ushiromiya Battler.

Even though the point of the red truth is to give the detective hints, Beato does a hell of a good job using it to screw with Battler.

No more than 17 humans exist on this island!!
There are 17 people.

Kind of...Odd. Before it was X is less than or equal to 17, and now X absolutely equals 17.
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Yeah okay but that doesn't change the fact that your interpretation would allow those ridiculous red truths to be effective. And I really do not think it is possible.

"Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" is not a truth, and likewise "Erika is the 18th human" is not a truth if Erika doesn't exist.
As before I put forward that "Tinkerbell" can be Titular just like "Erika the 18th Visitor". As for foreshadowing if this "Tinkerbell" drank absinthe like Kinzo it's a very clever and perverted nickname since Absinthe is also called the "green fairy".
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There are alot of ridiculous red truths because of the endless amount of 'interpretations' one can make from them.
I don't think it can be said there is any ridiculous red truth until we actually know what's the truth of this game. The only thing that can be said is that there are a lot of ridiculous interpretations.


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You can't deny your own red truth, but, whatever.
I don't think you get the point. A red truth is simply the truth. A statement that is not a truth cannot be said in red. "Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" is not a truth, the fact that neither Tinkerbell nor Battler's wife exist doesn't make this statement a truth.


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Even though the point of the red truth is to give the detective hints, Beato does a hell of a good job using it to screw with Battler.

No more than 17 humans exist on this island!!
There are 17 people.

Kind of...Odd. Before it was X is less than or equal to 17, and now X absolutely equals 17.
How do those statements conflict with each other? This can be expressed in basic mathematical logic.

X <= 17
X+Y = 17 (where Y might be 0 or 1)

The first statement is neither contradictory nor deceiving, it does get you closer to the truth. Without that statement X could be anything from 0 to infinite. With that statement you restrict the possibilities to a very low number. You are a lot closer to the truth with that statement than without it.
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How do those statements conflict with each other? This can be expressed in basic mathematical logic.

X <= 17
X+Y = 17 (where Y might be 0 or 1)
They don't conflict each other at all. It just feels like a Person X joined the party during game 6 that closed the possibility of X < 17. Either that, or Beatrice was just baiting Battler.

X=17 in order for the statement I am the 18th person of Rokkenjima.

X=17

Therefore, in the X+Y equation, X+Y=18

X+Y= 18

Substitute X.

17+Y=18

Y=1

HOWEVER, the statement There are 17 people. make X+Y have to equal 17 not 18. Which makes Y=0. You cannot put a number between 0 and one because it exceeds 17.

Which means:

A) Erika was fired (Y value changed within a short period of time)

B) "Erika" is a new name for non-existent Person 18, because people thought Person X was too bland a name.

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I don't think you get the point. A red truth is simply the truth. A statement that is not a truth cannot be said in red. "Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" is not a truth, the fact that neither Tinkerbell nor Battler's wife exist doesn't make this statement a truth.
That's where wording is important.

It's one thing to say, "because neither Tinkerbell nor Battler's wife exist, the statement "Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" cannot be true." That's because right here, it's already denied that Battler has a wife, and that Tinkerbell does not exist. But we can call Battler's non-existent wife (=0) anything we want because that non-existent person does not have a name, and we can use Tinkerbell as long as she does not exist. That's why the statement "Tinkerbell is Battler's non-existent wife" can be true, because it satisfies both requirements, that Tinkerbell does not exist, and that Battler has no wife.

It's another to say, " because the statement Tinkerbell is Battler's wife is false, Tinkerbell and Battler's wife do not exist." You can't assume that Tinkerbell does not exist in that statement, there's simply nothing saying that she can't exist as someone other than Battler's wife or that Battler's wife has another name. All the statement says is that she can't be Battler's wife, and that Battler's wife's name isn't Tinkerbell. So long as 'Tinkerbell does not exist' and 'Battler's wife does not exist' is not stated, I can assume that Tinkerbell and Battler's wife still exist, I just haven't seen them on the game board.

Yes I know I'm arguing over the existence of a magical floating fairy that exists in some island somewhere.

Also, Battler was able to pull a red truth from episode 4 to prove his 'I am not the detective' stunt in episode 5, because it was a truth that Beato gave to him...But how did he know that that truth also applied to the game board he was on?
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Battler was able to pull a red truth from episode 4 to prove his 'I am not the detective' stunt in episode 5, because it was a truth that Beato gave to him...But how did he know that that truth also applied to the game board he was on?
That is a good question, because according to my "playing games theory", even though Battler understands the truth, he doesn't understand the games themselves because they're just not built to be fully understood. That's why in episode 5 he just constructs a lie that can dodge the red, and makes it into a parallel truth.

My only explanation is that Dlanor missed her chance to strike at that flaw. At that point Battler was the game master so he could say almost any red he wanted, his reasoning that went with it was just something to satisfy the knox decalogue.
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Also, Battler was able to pull a red truth from episode 4 to prove his 'I am not the detective' stunt in episode 5, because it was a truth that Beato gave to him...But how did he know that that truth also applied to the game board he was on?
Well why wouldn't No person would mistake Ushiromiya Kinzo by sight apply in a game that's themed about Kinzo?

And even if it didn't how the hell would Dlanor know? He just got through a conversation between him Dlanor and Virgilia where he learned the red was created as a method to give him facts about the game works so he can solve it. So he should therefore assume going by the premise they talked about that facts given from the red can be used to give him direction to understanding the game. So as long as it's effective against Dlanor he couldn't care less.

Also Dlanor is a new arrival so Battler should be more reliable once he reaches the witch's rank since he's a veteran in this game. Battler also said in this same red that it was from the 4th game so may have known there was a possibility it may or may not apply to the 5th one. And even if he didn't think of that he's assumed this far that the reds 'there are only 5 master keys', and 'it's impossible to construct a closed room from the outside" for example were true in episode 3 when Beato said it in red in episode 2. But she acknowledged they still counted and he trusted her.

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They don't conflict each other at all. It just feels like a Person X joined the party during game 6 that closed the possibility of X < 17. Either that, or Beatrice was just baiting Battler.

X=17 in order for the statement I am the 18th person of Rokkenjima.

X=17

Therefore, in the X+Y equation, X+Y=18

X+Y= 18

Substitute X.

17+Y=18

Y=1

HOWEVER, the statement There are 17 people. make X+Y have to equal 17 not 18. Which makes Y=0. You cannot put a number between 0 and one because it exceeds 17.

Which means:

A) Erika was fired (Y value changed within a short period of time)

B) "Erika" is a new name for non-existent Person 18, because people thought Person X was too bland a name.
Your conclusions are narrow sighted.

The statement:
I am the 18th person of Rokkenjima.
means:
X=17
Y=1

and the statement
There are 17 people (including Erika)
means:

X+Y=17

this is a mathematical paradox. And there's no other way to fix this except by postulating an error in one of the statements. However there isn't any reason to think the error lies in one rather than in another. Well actually the last statement is probably the correct one, but as for Erika's "X" and "Y" they can be equally both wrong. So there are 3 possibilities:

-Erika's "X" and "Y" are not the same "X" and "Y" Battler and Beatrice talk about. In that case the equation should better use different labels for the four variables.
-"X" is not 17
-"Y" is not 1

Basically this problem can be reduced to this.





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That's where wording is important.

It's one thing to say, "because neither Tinkerbell nor Battler's wife exist, the statement "Tinkerbell is Battler's wife" cannot be true." That's because right here, it's already denied that Battler has a wife, and that Tinkerbell does not exist. But we can call Battler's non-existent wife (=0) anything we want because that non-existent person does not have a name, and we can use Tinkerbell as long as she does not exist. That's why the statement "Tinkerbell is Battler's non-existent wife" can be true, because it satisfies both requirements, that Tinkerbell does not exist, and that Battler has no wife.
I don't think this is logic. You are allowed to say what non existing things aren't, but you cannot say what non existing things are. Because non existing things "are not" by definition. The mere fact of claiming that a non exiting thing "is", is a paradox.

"Tinkerbell is Battler's non existent wife" assumes the existence of a "non existent (in the real world) wife". This statement can only make sense if there is in fact a postulated wife for Battler. In other words a wife that exists in the imaginary, which would make "tinkerbell" equally existent.

However if there isn't any postulated wife not even in someone's fantasy then that statement is devoid of any meaning, it isn't an effective red truth.

Translated into our Erika dilemma, this would mean that:
-Erika's "X" and "Y" are not the same "X" and "Y" Battler and Beatrice talk about.

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Real Erika probably drowned near Rokkenjima on the day of the family conference. Her corpse was never found and because her fate was unknown it was possible for the forgers to create the tales, where she's present on the island. We saw these tales in ep5-6. Our Erika is a pure fictional character, created by forger - Tohya.

Red truth just states the facts. However, some things can be true only in their own context, such as almost any game-specific reds, that are true only for a certain game (tale). There's also the truth that is fixed, despite being hidden in the catbox among other possible tales, and that's the truth of the real event on the island. Of course, it can also be stated in red.

When Erika says that she's the 18th human, it's the truth. But it's only the truth in its own context, for her own tale and game, because she's a fictional character. It's the same as saying something like Poirot exists in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". It's the truth, isn't it?
But Battler and Beato know the real truth. In fact, Erika knows it too. That's why earlier with Lambda she says that she was able to withstood the truth about herself and escape from inescapable hell to arrive here. That's why she knows what kind of bullet they will hit her with. And so they say that Erika never existed on the island in reality. This is also the truth and it doesn't contradict the previous one. Poirot never existed in reality.
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Real Erika probably drowned near Rokkenjima on the day of the family conference. Her corpse was never found and because her fate was unknown it was possible for the forgers to create the tales, where she's present on the island. We saw these tales in ep5-6. Our Erika is a pure fictional character, created by forger - Tohya.

Red truth just states the facts. However, some things can be true only in their own context, such as almost any game-specific reds, that are true only for a certain game (tale). There's also the truth that is fixed, despite being hidden in the catbox among other possible tales, and that's the truth of the real event on the island. Of course, it can also be stated in red.

When Erika says that she's the 18th human, it's the truth. But it's only the truth in its own context, for her own tale and game, because she's a fictional character. It's the same as saying something like Poirot exists in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". It's the truth, isn't it?
But Battler and Beato know the real truth. In fact, Erika knows it too. That's why earlier with Lambda she says that she was able to withstood the truth about herself and escape from inescapable hell to arrive here. That's why she knows what kind of bullet they will hit her with. And so they say that Erika never existed on the island in reality. This is also the truth and it doesn't contradict the previous one. Poirot never existed in reality.
I agree with this explanation, but i still have a doubt.
This may be the explanation for the "There are 17 people" part, but they say that there are 17 people Even if you (Erika) do join us.. Assuming that one sentence can only have one context, even if they are talking about the "reality" where Erika doesn't exist, how can a non-existent being "join" them?
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I agree with this explanation, but i still have a doubt.
This may be the explanation for the "There are 17 people" part, but they say that there are 17 people Even if you (Erika) do join us.. Assuming that one sentence can only have one context, even if they are talking about the "reality" where Erika doesn't exist, how can a non-existent being "join" them?
By being in "the cup inside the cup", or in other words, a character in a story told by someone who is actually on the island. If your friend decides to act out the part of Poirot for some reason, then you can interact with "Poirot" even though he's fictional, and "he" can also, say, hit you with a brickbat.

I think this is how Beatrice's two kinds of magic interact. "Endless creation" is her imagination bringing forth an infinite number of possible fictions, and then "magic realization" brings them into reality by getting people to act them out.
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Assuming that one sentence can only have one context, even if they are talking about the "reality" where Erika doesn't exist, how can a non-existent being "join" them?
Well, they are talking to a non-existent (in reality) meta-character and deny its existence in the context of reality. If you add a phantom to the real people, their numbers won't rise.
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