Re: Magic vs Science

In a message dated 1/1/99 3:20:39 PM Pacific Standard Time,
westermeyer.3@???.edu writes:

<< BTW, I disagree with Tandem's arguements about experiments showing the
 world to be an inherently Subjective place, lacking Objective reality. As I
 said in another post, the nature of mankind precludes any possibility of us
 proving or disproving the objective or subjective nature of reality. Such
 proofs are a logical impossibility (the exercise starts with an unprovable
 assumption). I personally strongly _believe_ that reality is objective,
 but I cannot prove it.  It's a simple question of faith or philsophical
 belief (I tend to be a Platonic, myself).
  >>
As my last input upon this...I base my campaign cosmology and mythology on a
far more fantastical extension of my personal viewpoint. I think it works for
roleplaying and is still fun, yet preserving a sense of magical wonder.
Actually, I personally believe, (as Tandem himself....) , that the world tends
to behave pretty darn Objectively most of the time, it just seems to show the
POTENTIAL to behave subjectively at the subatomic level, and that magic
follows a series of "broader than empirical physics" and seemingly scientific
laws that follow their own givens and logic, and seem to operate within the
Subjective definition, because of a series of mostly unseen, unknown or
misunderstood-by-the-general-populace criteria, perhaps because of that
ability for subatomic "hiccups" in reality or even causing them.(I'm a big fan
of Plato, it just happens to be that I study occult theology, so I have, much
like Paul and Steven, different source material AND the correspondingly
different perspective on an otherwise similar worldview.)
In the ancient words of Mar-Vel Com-Ics... 'Nuff-Said.
-Kurt-