Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
Weird Studies
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The Importance of Causality
Hume showed that causality is an empirical principle and never a logical principle there's nothing in logic that tells you like for example the principle of identity or the law of identity and logic. You can perfectly imagine something coming into being ex-nilo out of nothing you can imagine something just popping up I can look at my desk right now and imagine boom an orange is appearing on it out of the blue for no reason Logic doesn't dictate causality um so what Hume is saying is that causes are something we derive from experience but we don't know if it will apply in the future. There's nothing logically wrong with the idea of turning a person into a frog because we've never seen it
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