My loathe for conspiracy theorists-flat earthers especially-kind of makes me want to watch this.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Ie. Prove the rules of divination as written in their belief system.

    Traditionally, you prove (or more practically refute) the efficacy of a magical system like divination through empirical consistency.

    Divination doesn’t work because it is unreliable. I can predict, say, the next week of weather or the outcome of an athletic game through climatology or sabermetrics far more reliably than the I Ching or Tarot.

    But let’s pretend it did work. I’m not sure how you’d functionally prove it.