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I also disagree with the analogy. I think it's more akin to the study of law rather than trig. Math is precise, the law is as much art as logic. Magic is much more like the later than the former. Law is taught by learning a large number of cases and distilling general principals from those cases. In order to make new legal arguments, you must build by analogy from cases that have already been decided while defining and refining the principals lying underneath.

Also, thanks for posting this review! I was hoping you would tackle this book. I liked Mage the Ascension and was looking for a review like this to get a read on it. Can you go into some more detail on the spheres when you have a chance?