(June 5, 2020 at 11:07 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: But there isn't anything supernatural in fiction! I like a lot of fiction where people do apparently supernatural things although even within those narratives they aren't doing anything supernatural. Think about it. In the show Supernatural they are hunting ghosts, werewolves, and vampires amongst other things. The thing is those things are natural in that fictional world so we are back to there being No use for the word.
Yes the concepts are couched in a world that provides an apparent divide between natural and supernatural but in actuality the outrageous things written about are, within the story, natural because they exist within the story.
Doesn't this render the term "naturalism" meaningless? We're all naturalists then, even theists and folks who believe in fairies and such.
