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Can a Skeptic say magic doesn't exist?

Wouldn't the skeptical point of view be that it's doubtful, unsubstantiated, and unlikely. Not just 'No'?

Flat out 'No' is really more of a Stoic arguement really...

Update:

"I can not replicate it, so it must be magic."

Oh, but you can replicate it! Who convinced you that you can't?

Even ignoring the potato/lightbulb trick, you can always build a hand crank generator with magnets and copper wire, and a simple grid to power a light with a switch.

You just have to learn how.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    If you think it's impossible to prove that magic doesn't exist, and think that's a good reason to believe in it, then you must also think it's impossible to prove that a small teapot is not in orbit around the sun, exactly halfway between Earth and Mars. Do you also believe in that? If not, what's the difference, aside from personal preference?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Silly argument!!

    Magic is the art of illusion and slight of hand etc!!

    Therefore skeptics know that magic is a man made trick and deception and therefore exists as trickery!!

    They therefore not only know it exists but recognize it for what it is!!

    Electricity is a scientific fact not magic!!

    Christian claims for miracles and that sort of magic are fantasy and seen by the skeptics as that!!

  • drP
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Magic is everywhere.

    Watching a huge lump of metal full of people and baggage rise into the sky and fly away.

    Seeing pictures on a TV

    Hearing sounds from a radio.

    Turning dark to light by flicking a switch.

    I can not replicate it, so it must be magic.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    People don't believe because they have never noticed it. They put things down to chance or misfortune. But what people don't realize is that our brain emits frequencies with every thought. A frequency is energy. And like attracts like. So if you are constantly worried about something all the time guess what, it manifests itself. We literally will it into existence.

    Practicing Shaman... quantum physics rocks.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The skeptical answer is, there is no evidence to demonstrate reliably that magic exists, therefore no reason to believe that it does.

    This can be neatly summarised, though perhaps not ideally accurately, by the word "no"

  • 1 decade ago

    Magic is an illusion so of course it doesn't exist.

  • J
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Magic doesn't exist.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yep.

    "Magic doesn't exist"

  • 1 decade ago

    there is no magic just illusions

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the supernatural world is not real. like god there is no evidence.

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