On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Thomas R Jefferys wrote:

Like I said, magical "laws" are screwy, and this just means that the
"scientific theories" of magic are incomplete and need work. Science is
discriptive in nature; it cannot force the world to work in ANY particular
way.

The problem with a discussion of magical theory is that any human dialogue
takes place in some logical framework.  (Sorry, I just got through reading
one of the Dune books.)  But what does logic have to do with magic?

A categorization of various spell types is useful, but magical 'theory' is
rather pointless in my opinion.  Unless you decide that the magic of the
universe you are writing about is a type of energy that does follow
physical rules, but then you end up with something more akin to psi than
what would call magic.

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