I believe Islamic philosophy essentially does this with Allah substituted for magic
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There are some occasionalists that do something like this.
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I don’t think Malebranche would qualify but if you can name a specific occ./muslim, I’ll check it out
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Malebranche is saying that the problems w/ all theories of causal connexion are st you need to assume God’s will, not that the adv of occasionalism is that no matter what happens, it fits w/ occasionalism
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Al ghazali I think was the best occasionalist iirc. Male rancher was god causes everything, whereas Islamic occasionalists hold that god remakes the world constantly. Might be wrong though, haven’t read up on this in a while.
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Having skimmed some of the Stanford encyclopedia entry on ocasionalism, I think I’m wrong about Muslim occasionalists, but al ghazali is the big name
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There's rules to magic, but we just don't know them well enough--physics is the same way, so this can be used to bootstrap to "anything can happen, I'm not wrong" without believing in 'magic'
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right but i’m not asking about by extrapolation or implication, i’m asking if anyone states that as a direct justification for their view
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Francis Bacon. Rules to manipulating nature = magic. If you know this magic, you can by definition never be wrong. Unless of course the magic turns on you and you wind up in 21st century piss world.
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Thank you but again this is two degrees removed from what I’m looking for: (a) someone who believes this about *magic* (not about the laws of physics etc), (b) someone who states it directly as a *rationale* for their view (not an implication/etc)
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Never run across that. Try the Neoplatonists.
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