Constructing intelligible hypotheses at all excludes self-contradictory and meaningless or nonsense causes. For instance, that the weird behavior could be caused by blue lizards who are not blue, or that it could be caused by f̢ish wish wa҉l̵l͜op ̡ba̷zi̸n̷g͜a déat̢h spįral ̛cr͠o͜t͠hf͢allá ́o͢o͠kmisch͝ ͜g̴a̵x̛̀a̸̢̧x̢͏̸a͘͝l̴͟a͢x̴i̡a̵͜x ̸̛f͠r̴op͝͡.͏͏
I think it’s obvious that those phenomena are due to colourless green ideas sleeping furiously.
Jokes aside, “supernatural gaslighting” may be extremely unlikely, but I don’t see how it (a supernatural (in WN’s sense) entity trying to trick OrphanWilde and others into believing he’s insane) is self-contradictory or meaningless.
Constructing intelligible hypotheses at all excludes self-contradictory and meaningless or nonsense causes. For instance, that the weird behavior could be caused by blue lizards who are not blue, or that it could be caused by f̢ish wish wa҉l̵l͜op ̡ba̷
zi̸n̷g͜a déat̢h spįral ̛cr͠o͜t͠hf͢allá ́o͢o͠kmisch͝ ͜g̴a̵x̛̀a̸̢̧x̢͏̸a͘͝l̴͟a͢x̴i̡a̵͜x ̸̛f͠r̴op͝͡.͏͏I think it’s obvious that those phenomena are due to colourless green ideas sleeping furiously.
Jokes aside, “supernatural gaslighting” may be extremely unlikely, but I don’t see how it (a supernatural (in WN’s sense) entity trying to trick OrphanWilde and others into believing he’s insane) is self-contradictory or meaningless.