(August 29, 2022 at 3:15 am)Deesse23 Wrote:(August 29, 2022 at 1:55 am)Belacqua Wrote: Everything with a nature has things it can't do.Supernatural = impossible
So "supernatural" means: when a thing does something beyond what its nature is capable of doing.
...unless Bel is going to provide us with examples of things doing stuff beyond their nature. ONE thing actually would be enough. But hes not gonna do that.
We are all good scientists who severely doubt that a badger could ever do something supernatural. Therefore we doubt that the supernatural is possible. If we did hear a report of a badger typing out a treatise on early Latin literature on its little laptop, we would almost certainly reject this. It must be a lie, a drug hallucination, etc. Because our way of understanding the world rejects the idea that anything can act in a way over and above its nature, and our beliefs about the nature of things come from accumulations of centuries of scientific observations.
I am not arguing that the supernatural is possible. I am saying that this is the ancient definition of the word, and is still the only one I know which makes sense.