From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: SR's Poor Magic System, IMHO!
Date:	Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:28:49 +0200

> > To that I can only say that you have a very different worldview than I :)
> > To me its not enough to know that gravity "simply exists" I want to
know about
> > fields and stuff. And this is what WYTIWYG is all about, knowledge.
>
> The trouble is that this thing called WYTIWYG could be used to explain
> or justify almost anything. You could always construct a belief system
> to justify whatever weird magic effect you liked.

Agreed, but as I said once too often. The only canonical world-view
is the one described in the sourcebooks published by FASA.

> My main gripe with it is that the term is cute but misleading.
>
> Since FASA haven't spelled out what's really possible and what's not,
> you can't actually use the notion of the Belief Effect to really
> explain much. I don't see how you can equate it to a scientific
> theory at all.

Well its a bit of a creativistic thing, but there is a scientific basis
for it, even in real life.

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