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by aidenn0 5042 days ago
Science does in fact allow for magic. If it were true that saying several syllables in succession accompanied by appropriate gestures caused lightning to shoot from your fingertips in a repeatable manner, science could measure and classify it.

We do not know, as of yet, what, nor how many things are fundamental to the universe.

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And thus, by explaining, measuring and classifying, lighting incantations are no longer magic.
If magic with an explicit lack of even the potential to be explained existed, science would still allow for it. At no point does science require that reality must explain itself.
Something seems wrong with this argument... Surely science is a subset of reality?