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I don't agree with your opinion that if magic would have rules and make sense, it would be science - science is a way of thinking and approaching a problem, way of studying the world. Magic is a force of nature in the setting, part of the way the world works, just like laws of physics of chemistry, there is no reason why it should not be studied with scientific method and have it's own laws.

It’s perfectly valid to have a different opinion than the one I hold. But I’m not convinced by your argument.

Magic is, by definition, unexplainable. It’s a cause-effect situation that does not follow the laws of physics or the rules of the universe as we understand them. So it’s more like the cheat codes in a video game that produce a result that otherwise should not be possible.

Once you get magic to the point where you can apply scientific method to it, just as with chemistry or meteorology, then it ceased to be magic, and simply becomes science.Magic is magic because it doesn’t adhere to being studied by scientific method. I don’t know that there’s really any other way to describe it. (Except for the trope of all magic being just advanced science anyway, which amounts to the same thing.)