(January 17, 2022 at 2:29 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Science with modified tools would still exist in a world inhabited by gods and magic. Science has chosen a certain methodology because of pragmatism, and the theories created by science are pragmatic theories.
That's what magic and ritual systems are. A pragmatic theory of how to use forces believed to exist as causal agents in our world with respect to things that matter to us.
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