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| Anonymous #1089592 4 months ago |
That's a contradiction!
You know what else is a contradiction?  |
| SlayerBVC #1089595 4 months ago |
Way to misspell 'Skeptic' |
| Anonymous #1089605 4 months ago |
Duh, but it makes sense. "Magic" is extensively studied and used. I'd say mostly completely understood. Therefore it's not supernatural, but part of the nature. |
| BackgroundPony17 #1089612 4 months ago |
Not a contradiction. Twilight Sparkle doesn't believe unicorn magic is "supernatural".
Her problem is that she thinks every other kind of magic in Equestria is. |
| Anonymous #1089613 4 months ago |
Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indestinguishable from science. |
| ProfessorOfHoers #1089615 4 months ago |
It's like Alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist. It's known and understood. It's not considered supernatural.
Also, learn to spell. |
| d715 #1089653 4 months ago |
Its kinda like "I am Ledgend" what's normal is what the majorty thinks.
Magic, and controling the weather is the norm, while a forrest that can't be controled is seen as "supernatural" |
| Fronzel #1089656 4 months ago |
Also filthy earthies don't have magic. |
| SpecialAnon #1089660 4 months ago |
@anon1 *sigh* boring. The living dead, that's a real contradiction. |
| BackgroundPony17 #1089680 4 months ago |
Actually, they do, Fronzel. It's just that Twilight doesn't know how it works, and she has a hard time accepting things she can't logically analyze. |
| nomdepony #1089785 4 months ago |
Magic A is Magic A |
| DoctorDreidal #1089974 4 months ago |
Well, actually she was just skeptical of something that couldn't be explained. |
| Anonymous #1090069 4 months ago |
Sceptic is valid, nincompoops. |
| Anonymous #1090194 4 months ago |
Sceptic is indeed valid; it's just that on the Internet it makes people feel good to find and point out flaws. It makes people feel better about themselves to see the imperfections in others. |
| Nebbie #1090275 4 months ago |
@SlayerBVC
sceptic is the british spelling. Learn2googlebeforeyougrammaridiotize |
| Anonymous #1091255 4 months ago |
^^ It also makes people feel better about themselves to psychoanalyze others. |
| -Lunacy #1091598 4 months ago |
I don't like starburst |
| mathprofbrony #1095461 4 months ago |
Sceptic just means not taking every statement that comes flying toward your brain without checking it out first.
In Twilight's world, magic happens, but she's a well-educated pony and knows its usual boundaries. The claim "I can teleport a mile" is unusual but not terribly different from what she knows. She still might ask for a demonstration, if it mattered. The claim "my twitches predict the future" is a lot weirder. There's actually a fair amount of discussion of "Feeling Pinkie Keen" on skeptic and freethought boards. The upshot is that a skeptic could reasonably be hesitant to accept the claim initially, but a few examples such as those seen in the episode are sufficient to establish that the phenomenon occurs. No "faith" is required. Being able to explain something isn't required to believe that it happens -- "This clearly happens, but how does this happen" is a perfectly logical question to ask. We in the real world were able to recognize, say, that human papillomavirus was linked to cancer well before we knew the mechanism of connection. It was possible to realize that stroking iron with a magnet made another magnet before the laws of electromagnetism and atomic theory were discovered. |
| mathprofbrony #1095485 4 months ago |
Also, I totally rewrote this episode in my head into "Twilight Sparkle Teaches Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing."
<Spike> "One for twitches, one for falls. Got it. But why make two lists, Twilight? They'll both happen at the same time, right?" <Twilight Sparkle> "Because we're trying to see if the two events are statistically independent, Spike." * A blackboard begins rolling into view behind Twilight. Cheerilee is pushing it toward the school. <Spike> "Statiwhat?" <Twilight> "Statistically independent. When you- may I borrow that?" <Cheerilee> "Sure, I'll grab a coffee break." She trots off. * Twilight levitates some chalk. "We want to determine whether tail twitches happen near the times of things falling. Obviously, things sometimes fall without Pinkie twitching..." Etc. |