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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7571777" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I would take it further. There is a right answer. The troops depicted were all actually present at Waterloo and engaged in combat against each other on that day. There isn't just a 'single right set of possibilities', there is AN ANSWER. If the Old Guard and the Young Guard had charged together up the ridge 30 minutes sooner, then they would or wouldn't have broken through. One of those possibilities is what WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. There is no doubt there. True, it may not be determinable which IS correct, but there is a fundamental sense in which one of those answers is truly correct, and with sufficient information it could be determined which it is, with absolute certainty. </p><p></p><p>The possible actions of a fantastical non-existent NPC of an imaginary race in an imaginary world with an imaginary culture and religion, and largely unknown background isn't something which HAS a determinable answer to it. 'truth' isn't even a possible description of any hypothesized set of actions. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup. I really never have understood why any of this would be controversial. I could write a book explaining exactly how RPGs progressed from one sort of game to the other through a series of accommodations, realizations, and elaborations. It shouldn't even be remotely controversial.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7571777, member: 82106"] I would take it further. There is a right answer. The troops depicted were all actually present at Waterloo and engaged in combat against each other on that day. There isn't just a 'single right set of possibilities', there is AN ANSWER. If the Old Guard and the Young Guard had charged together up the ridge 30 minutes sooner, then they would or wouldn't have broken through. One of those possibilities is what WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. There is no doubt there. True, it may not be determinable which IS correct, but there is a fundamental sense in which one of those answers is truly correct, and with sufficient information it could be determined which it is, with absolute certainty. The possible actions of a fantastical non-existent NPC of an imaginary race in an imaginary world with an imaginary culture and religion, and largely unknown background isn't something which HAS a determinable answer to it. 'truth' isn't even a possible description of any hypothesized set of actions. Yup. I really never have understood why any of this would be controversial. I could write a book explaining exactly how RPGs progressed from one sort of game to the other through a series of accommodations, realizations, and elaborations. It shouldn't even be remotely controversial. [/QUOTE]
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