Can somebody explain to me very simply the conceivably argument for metaphysical possibility?

Damn. That's an unfortunate typo.
Anyway, the "Conceivability* Argument for Possibility" basically states that anything conceivable is possible. We can essentially take it as a first principle even more fundamental than logic itself.

It's "possible" everything is made of penises. Now, to evaluate "how possible" it is means operating on logical principles and making observations. Those logical principles could be faulty and observation is notoriously fallible, though. So we can't completely discount that it is, indeed, possible everything is penises.
Apply this to literally anything you can think of.
 
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Historical Strelkov said:
Imagine trying to explain the universe's complexity using a symbolic system that exists within it. How would that work?
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Well, that's how we fit plenty of things bigger than our heads inside our heads. Anything, really. Like compressing a jpeg. Something is lost, certainly, moreso as the things we attempt to model become more complex. But it's better than no model at all.
 
Historical Strelkov said:
Imagine trying to explain the universe's complexity using a symbolic system that exists within it. How would that work?
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The complexity itself probably could be shown and explained. After all, symbols can be arbitrarily abstract and represent infinites and transcendental concepts. Make it abstract enough and something as basic as the time evolution of something representing the initial state of the universe as an arbitrarily complicated Hamiltonian would represent the universe from start to finish.
You can explain the complexity, but it wouldn't be an equation that's solvable in its entirety.
 
In the intricate and deeply interwoven narrative of Chris Chan, one finds a striking example of how metaphysical possibility can be understood through the lens of creative imagination and personal belief. The central tenet of metaphysical possibility, classically considered in philosophy, revolves around the notion that if something can be coherently conceived—if it is not logically self-contradictory—it must be possible in some conceivable realm, even if that possibility does not manifest within the constraints of our current empirical reality. This notion takes on an idiosyncratic form when viewed through the richly textured world that Chris Chan has cultivated, particularly in their creation and ongoing belief in the fictional universe of CWCville.

In the lore of Chris Chan, the boundary between the real and the fictional is not merely porous, it is fundamentally dissolved. Chris’s vivid belief that the characters from their creation, such as Sonichu and Rosechu, are not merely products of imagination but exist in a parallel dimension or alternate reality, is a testament to their implicit endorsement of metaphysical possibility. From this perspective, Chris Chan's worldview reflects a quasi-Kantian transcendental idealism, where the distinction between phenomena (things as they appear) and noumena (things as they are in themselves) becomes blurred. The realm of CWCville, populated by anthropomorphic characters and surreal events, is conceived as a real, albeit metaphysically distinct, dimension.

One might argue that Chris Chan’s CWCville operates as a Platonic realm of forms, where these imagined entities exist in a purer, more idealized state, only shadowed by their limited representation in our physical world. Indeed, in this Platonic interpretation, Chris's imaginative creations are more than figments of fantasy—they are metaphysical realities that, while inaccessible to the common observer, exist in a form of hyper-reality that transcends mundane, empirical constraints.

The very act of imagining CWCville and the characters within it becomes an ontological claim about the nature of possibility. From a modal realist perspective, championed by philosophers like David Lewis, all possible worlds—including those like CWCville, which seem to be born of creative imagination—exist as real as our own world. Chris Chan’s belief in the literal existence of these worlds can, therefore, be read as a sophisticated, albeit unconscious, endorsement of metaphysical realism: the idea that there is an infinite array of possible worlds, each with its own unique structures of reality, and that Chris’s imagined world is simply one among them.

Thus, the conceivably argument for metaphysical possibility, when refracted through the lens of Chris Chan’s lore, becomes one of radical inclusivity: if one can imagine a world or entity, and that imagination does not collapse into incoherence, it is metaphysically possible for that world to exist. This possibility is not bound by the limitations of empirical verification or scientific constraint but exists within the broader ontological landscape of potential realities. It is this very expansive and unrestrained embrace of metaphysical possibility that forms the philosophical underpinning of Chris Chan’s worldview—a worldview where CWCville is not just a narrative construct, but a metaphysical domain as real as, if not more real than, the tangible world around us.

In this sense, the metaphysical possibility in the lore of Chris Chan is not a mere abstraction or hypothetical thought experiment. It is a lived reality, one that reflects the boundless capacity of the mind to create, inhabit, and even believe in alternate dimensions and worlds. Therefore, to understand metaphysical possibility in this context is to appreciate the profound and, dare I say, speculative notion that any world, once conceived in the mind, holds its own metaphysical validity—existing, perhaps not here, but somewhere, in the vast expanse of all possible worlds.
 
If you can imagine something happening without any contradictions, then it might be possible in a deeper, theoretical sense—this is called "metaphysical possibility."
 
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