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MagicAccordingToFrank 7 - 02 Feb 2008 - Main.AndrewGradman
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Eben alluded to us not quite getting the meaning of "magic" according to Frank. Let's use this space to work it out. -- AdamCarlis - 02 Feb 2008
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 If, in our readings, the pendulum swung from a transcendental conception of the law filling the ether of pre-19th century history to Holmes's more scientific approach focused on prediction, Frank is perhaps halting the force of Holmes's push. To Frank, it is impossible to predict the law by a scientific method, as the physical sciences attempt, because the law as a descriptive matter is regulated partly by "invariants, uniformities, regularities" (210) and partly by magic and contingency.

-- JesseCreed - 02 Feb 2008

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To say "X is Y" (rule-faith is magic), you're just saying, "X meets the necessary and sufficient conditions for Y." It's not a way of defining "magic," Christopher -- it's a way of defining "defining!"

-- AndrewGradman - 02 Feb 2008

 
 
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