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I'm not sure I understand what you mean by magic, even though I have seen you use the term a lot.  Could you please explain a little?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sun Dec 30th, 2007 at 09:54:08 PM EST
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I think he uses it in the technical meaning of Magical thinking (from Anthropology):
In anthropology, psychology and cognitive science magical thinking is causal reasoning that often includes such ideas as the law of contagion, correlation equalling causation, the power of symbols and the ability of the mind to affect the physical world.


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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:33:15 PM EST
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