This is the personal justification for things which people accept to be true but can't personally explain how, or why.
I know that my microwave works, somehow, but I don't know exactly how. It works on an understood "Magic Factor" until I decide that I'm going to research and find out how.
Then it becomes knowledge.
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theres a popular train of thought that magic is indistinguishable from science once science is far enough advanced. but what is magic then? is it just science that we havent figured out? by that definition, nothing is magic, it is merely ignorance. but how are we to know if everything can be figured out and comprehended? i cant comprehend modular functions. does that mean that they are magic, or am i just ignorant? they must not be magic because many people do understand them. but many people also believe in god, so how does religion factor into the discussion? only if we were to know everything, only if we were omniscient like god, could we tell if there was magic. if we knew all that though, what would be the point of wondering anymore? magic is, just because we still wonder.
I'll clarify my use of the word "magic" as being the equal positive to "ignorance." Ignorant people, by definition, can't recognize their ignorance. When one doesn't analyze and deeply think on an issue that isn't understood, there's still an underlying idea of acceptance of the outcome, despite the ignorance of the steps taken to achieve said outcome. That's "magic."
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