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An Argument Against Supernatural Causation
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RE: An Argument Against Supernatural Causation
(July 4, 2010 at 2:00 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote:


Its apparent that what we lack here is an agreed definition of what counts as natural/ material and what counts as supernatural/ immaterial. The 2 definitions that you give are both problematic:

1) Relies on already having a definition of what would constitute a different sort of 'stuff'. But thats exactly what we don't have.
2) Similar situation- we don't have a definition of 'natural phenomena'. It also admits the possibility of something that is supernatural now becoming natural tomorrow, when we discover an indubitably natural phenomenon that is consistent with it.

I'm not sure if necessary and sufficient conditions is the way to go here. Perhaps 'supernatural' is more like a Wittgenstinian 'game'.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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RE: An Argument Against Supernatural Causation - by Caecilian - July 4, 2010 at 11:28 am

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