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- adjective
supernatural
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Examples
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Understanding nomological impossibility as a transgression of the laws of nature, we get the metaphysical (supernatural or extra-natural) chimera.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Understanding nomological impossibility as a transgression of the laws of nature, we get the metaphysical (supernatural or extra-natural) chimera.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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If someone doubts the prospects for reducing moral properties to natural properties (perhaps under the influence of the open question argument), they need not concede that there are any extra-natural or supernatural properties.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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To consider us super– or extra-natural is a major conceit.
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Still, I'm unclear as to what an "extra-natural thing" is.
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The important question, then, is this: "Is intelligent causation natural or extra-natural?"
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If one includes intelligent causation as a part of one's ontology, then there is no reason to suppose that an intelligent cause is extra-natural.
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Is intelligent causation natural or extra-natural?
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When one is talking about extra-natural causes, I have no idea what one is talking about.
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My first question, how is your “extra-natural” not actually the same as my “supernatural”?
The Memory Hole 2005
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