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At least, directly. All systems of magic are effectively arbitrary ways of abstracting chunks of reality into more manipulable variables and concepts. Things like 'life force' and 'caloric' are all just things various magical systems made up to simplify the task of altering otherwise very complicated natural systems, at the cost of actual direct control.
Complicated, or finicky? Cause there's a difference. Complicated is no big deal, because you can learn how to deal with it. Finicky, on the other hand, means no matter how much you learn, it's just not going to work right sometimes.
In essence, everyday magic is 'programs' for 'high level programming languages' which simplify the otherwise unbelievable task of 'writing in machine code' or 'writing in assembly' - IE, altering reality.
Pseudoscience and folk mysticism typically has it's roots, in this setting, in normal people hearing magic talk and deciding it sounds legit.
Because it's /not/ legit...it's all bullshit, and those who invented it knew that.
Complicated AND finicky, by the way. The system of reality is far too complex for a human mind to grasp for casual alteration, so the only way to achieve consistent, reproducible, and easy spellcasting is to make an abstract intermediary between yourself and reality.
Much like how you CAN write in machine code or assembly, but it's not actually that portable, and is way harder and longer as a task - so instead people applied those efforts to creating systems more abstracted from the hardware, and easier to manipulate.
There isn't a machine, you're still casting spells and shit...
It's just that all the forces and such you're interacting with are arbitrary mass labels applied to large swaths of reality so you don't have to work with as many variables while changing reality. Manipulating 'life energy' is simpler and easier than directly manipulating all the factors that play into human wellbeing, for example.
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