Fairies and Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 02 Apr 2012, 17:34 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:34:16 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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On 4/2/2012 8:05 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> I think I agree with Jeff, though again, I'm not fully sure what definition of magic
> he is using here. 		 	   		

Off the cuff, I'd say magic is characterized as an agency that is 
similar to divine power except that it can be made to do a mortal's 
bidding. Magic can be couched in material vessels like charms, fetishes, 
or talking fish, but has the capacity to do what the the invoker 
subjectively means to do rather than what the material vessels would 
otherwise do as judged by objective observers.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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