RichardKennaway comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 12 October 2012 01:36:21PM 8 points [-]

"Magic" just means "I don't know how it works." (Pratchett, somewhere in the Tiffany Aching novels.)

If the world is exhibiting some regularity, you can always ask how that happens. "No mechanism" is itself a prediction: that none will be found. Where did that prediction come from?