Questions tagged [logic]
For use in questions based in reason, principality, and truth.
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Logical/Scientific Explanation for Umbrakinesis?
I'm working on a story where the characters have elemental-based powers based on natural material/materials/phenomena found in nature. So far, each of the powers makes sense on a physical level, since ...
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Is there any reason why The Chosen One should bother to do anything if their victory is prophesized? [closed]
Assume the prophecy says that The Chosen One will defeat the DARK OVERLORD. The spell of the prophecy is always accurate and has a 100% chance of being true. This has been mathematically proven and is ...
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How would computers work if the number zero wasn't invented?
I imagine a parallel world where people instantly went crazy and kill themselves whenever they try to conceptualize nothingness which we now known as the number zero, so no one I mean absolutely ...
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The green and the dragons
In several fantasy works they have the iconic dragons, giant reptile creatures and that commonly breathe fire. In some works these creatures were tamed and trained to serve as military weapons in wars,...
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Math on another planet [closed]
Mathematicians constantly create new axiom systems, and there are different concepts of information. My view is that mathematics gets where I am because mathematicians invented notations to write down ...
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Is this time travel scheme internally consistent?
I know there are similar questions, but not similar enough, and in fact, I don't remember seeing this kind of time travel in fiction.
Before I start, it doesn't matter how the time machine works in ...
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Retconing God's omniscience and omnipotence with minimal changes? [closed]
So, the world is operated by daemons. Daemons are divine entities that govern various aspects of the world. Think of stuff like river gods, tasked with maintaining the water supply and filtering out ...
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How can I make my homunculus more efficient to prevent it from burning out?
A person is born with a certain amount of mana, or life-force, which steadily increases as they age. This mana allows our biological forms to function and is used to power spells in magic rituals. ...
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Worlds with different mathematics and logic [closed]
I want to visualize how worlds with different mathematics and logic could function, as opposed to worlds with different physical laws.
For instance, I came up with the following examples.
A world ...
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How can a time-resetter prove the range of their ability?
Consider the magic power of being able to 'reset time' in the style of Groundhog Day or The Edge of Tomorrow, ie revert one's environment and physical state to that of an earlier time while retaining ...
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Any new technologies that are ready to be discovered? [closed]
As an electronics engineer, (sort of), I understand how transistor gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, etc.) are combined to create all of our digital devices. The first computers were created in the mid-...
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How does a luck spell work? [closed]
Don has been a royal pain to Harry, who just so happens to be an aspiring magician, and decides to get some of his own back: he casts a curse of bad luck! Now whenever Donald rolls dice, draws cards, ...
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I'm designing a magic system and need some help [closed]
I have been trying to design a magic system for a while now that I'm going to base a project off. And I'm having a bit of trouble. I want the system to be applicable to the creation of an entire world ...
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What entity executes magical spells? [closed]
In a lot of stories to cast a spell one must say some words or draw symbols on the ground etc. Now it seems like logically, in order for such things to work something has to ever presently watch for ...
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Rules for Geological Structures [closed]
I'm trying to create a Random World Generator.
To create this, I need to be able to generate geological structures like mountains, volcanoes, etc. What rules (i.e.: min 200 miles between 2 islands) ...
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