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Open challenge regarding the supernatural
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RE: Open challenge regarding the supernatural
(May 20, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: \
It doesn't seem incoherent unless you beg the question by assuming that there is no such thing as a thing that can't be explained by natural means.

A failure to explain any phenomenon in natural terms can stem from:

1) the radical separateness of supernatural phenomena from all others;

2) the incompleteness of our explanatory structures;

3) the individual incompetence of observers to interpret what they experience.


The semantic sense of "supernatural" is conveyed comprehensibly enough in movies, but that doesn't get us any closer to any actual instances.
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RE: Open challenge regarding the supernatural - by Whateverist - May 20, 2015 at 2:54 pm

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