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24 Post author: r_claypool 25 June 2011 03:46AM

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Comment author: scientism 25 June 2011 04:53:05PM 8 points [-]

My advice would be to ignore natural/supernatural and focus on true/false instead. From the perspective of truth the category of "natural" is superfluous.

Comment author: jfm 27 June 2011 07:12:29PM 1 point [-]

I was going to comment along similar lines. Most people probably have a concept of "supernatural" that's defined by a grab-bag of phenomena. If you stop wondering about whether "the supernatural" exists, and whether various allegedly supernatural phenomena (e.g. transubstantiation, ghosts, spoon-bending) exist, and if it happens that they do, how they work, you'll be well on your way to not needing the concept of "supernatural".