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ringo
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Message 30 of 81 (688263)
01-21-2013 12:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by shadow71
01-18-2013 7:08 PM


shadow71 writes:
Is it natural or metaphysical?
I'm not happy with the notion that something could "be" metaphysical instead of natural. We can propose metaphysical explanations for phenomena that don't have a physical explanation (yet), such as lightning, but it's only the explanation that is either physical or metaphysical. The phenomenon itself just "is".

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ringo
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Message 39 of 81 (688413)
01-22-2013 11:54 AM
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01-21-2013 3:41 PM


shadow71 writes:
My intent was to ask is the cause of the phenomenon natural or metaphysical.
You seem to be using "metaphysical" as a synonym for "supernatural", which I don't think is correct.

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ringo
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Message 42 of 81 (688527)
01-23-2013 11:28 AM
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01-22-2013 4:57 PM


shadow71 writes:
In the discpline of Philosphy you are correct, however I think it is being used in Schroeders book as per the definition, ie supernatural.
Of course the problem with "supernatural" explanations is that they're so often made redundant by natural explanations - e.g. lightning. I think we should regard "supernatural" as something like "ultraviolet" - i.e. "beyond visible light, "more" than visible light in the sense that it's more energetic, but not fundamentally different from visible light.

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