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▼ TMA Appendix C 3/25 (12%) Gramacy magician magic tricks coincidence
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Appendix C: Jane and Rob Meet a Skeptical Psychologist and His Magic. Jane’s Poem: “Magic is public as the air …”

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“Coincidence,” Gramacy answered dourly. “I’d explain such instances that way.”

“But if you wrote down each such instance and kept track, you might find that there were too many to assign to coincidence, or discover that coincidence couldn’t apply to some at all,” I said. “You’d have your own growing body of instances to examine. You can’t prove that coincidence is or isn’t responsible for such things, but you could consider the unofficial hypothesis as a possibility. You might find that you have proof of precognition in your own life that you’re ignoring.”

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Rob replied, “That test was just one of many we did. We didn’t discount anything. When you use coincidence as a handy explanation for everything, then you never get that far.”

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