Relativism seems to me an obvious consequence of a magic-free worldview but to others an obvious result of anti-rationalist quasi-mysticism. When one think of this debate or clash of intuitions one can't help but wonder: why is everyone apart from Liam Kofi Bright entirely wrong?
Yes, but that doesn't amount to magic or magic-free. I think you are using the word magic in a very generous way like as it it was a proto form of experimental science a la Lynn Thorndike. Otherwise, magic as it is commonly understood is actually not a good conventional choice.
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He means magic in the William James sense -- a sassy pejorative for realist metaphysics
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Realist metaphysics? Where is Carnap now?
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