(November 25, 2018 at 10:27 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:
I was quoting someone, you. You stated "This depends on what you mean by the supernatural." and then blurbed on with your own straw man argumentum ad populum that most people who "advance similar arguments don't have any real idea what they mean by supernatural" and then I cited the common definition of supernatural as
If you have problems with an Apophatic definitions, write to them. If you have a problem with a word being useful in description by claim the negative, then take it up with hard atheists. If you would like to clearly define what supernatural IS instead of ISN'T, we can press on with that. The contents of your apartment are the contents of your apartment. Anything not fitting in that definition is conversely NOT the contents of your apartment, unless you bring them into your apartment. That grows the definition of what's in your apartment.
If our universe contains everything that can be defined by natural law and phenomena, then supernatural phenomena are either outside our universe or as yet unexplainable by current methods available.
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