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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7146368" data-attributes="member: 6775031">That seems like an unnecessarily limited way of viewing the world. If we can discern small details in the area around us, but can only make out large features at a distance, it makes more sense to assume some sort of consistency based on our observations than to assume that there are no details to observe if we moved closer to that distant location.There's an old joke, which can apparently be attributed to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon:[sblock]There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician.And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.'[/sblock]As a PHB-style wizard, or wizard-adjacent adventurer, we can observe that every scholarly magician that we know well has some things in common, and one of those things is that any of them capable of casting a second level spell will have the ability to recover spell slots during (the local equivalent of) a short rest. If we then observe another scholarly magician casting a second level spell, and we don't know them very well because we only encounter them from the other side of a pitched battle, then it stands to reason that they can probably also recover spell slots.Assuming that they can't - assuming that they are only capable of doing what we explicitly observe them to be doing - would be like assuming a cow has no backside based on the fact that we can't currently observe it.</blockquote>

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