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{{quote|''"If physics proposes: 'You have a brother and he likes cheese,' then metaphysics replies, 'If you have a brother, he likes cheese.' But 'Pataphysics says: 'You don’t have a brother and he likes cheese.' "''|'''Georges Perec''', novelist and pataphysician}}
'Pataphysics (French: 'pataphysique) is an absurdist, pseudo-scientific literary trope. ′Pataphysics is to metaphysics as metaphysics is to physics. ′Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions. ′Pataphysics describes the hypothetical that comes from the imaginary. ′Pataphysics sometimes finds useful from the useless. ′Pataphysics is tongue-in-cheek rules taken seriously, but not too much. ′Pataphysics has become a joke of applied pseudoscience in that it has been seriously done. ′Pataphysics on rare occasions is how the world ought to be and points out [[Reality Is Unrealistic]].
In terms of tropes, ′pataphysics might be the greatest one of all, with all tropes being examples of it as the rules of [[Theory of Narrative Causality|narrative causalities]] called stories. The [[Troper|troper]] is the pataphysician of these pataphorical worlds. Our [[Anthropomorphic Personification|metaphors run amok]] become pataphors, and our pataphors subject to our tropes. In these worlds the [[Genre Savvy]] are the physicists, and everything around them is the result of some person asking "what would it be like if [[All Theories Are True]]?" Or maybe it's just [[Artistic License Physics]] for worlds based on [[Rule of Cool]], [[Just for Fun]].
'''’Pataphysics is not postmodernism.''' The two philosophies are fundamentally incompatable, in fact. Postmodernism proposes that reality is a fiction or that there is no difference between literal and metaphorial truth. ′Pataphysics proposes that there is a reality and that it is not the same as metaphorical realities, which themselves are distinct constructs. Indeed, the construction of metaphorical realities is taken from metaphysics and their study and in depth exploration is a core part of ′pataphysics. ′Pataphysics recognizes these metaphorical realities as just that, imaginary. ′Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions after all. It might even be argued that ’pataphysics is the exact opposite of postmodernism for all this.
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