Paraphrasing my dictionary, ‘(the) supernatural’ means ‘things that cannot in principle be explained according to the laws of nature.'
‘Nature’ is the place beyond the lens of your eye, where everything with objective existence is found, the same thing as the realm of the physical sciences.
The same thing as ‘reality’, indeed.
Out there in reality we find no gods, spirits, ghosts, souls, demons, familiars, vampires, fairies, not even the headmistress of Hogwarts.
And we can give no useful meaning to the idea ‘outside reality’ – by definition there’s no such real place. so there can only be an imaginary one.
What have I missed?
What real things cannot in principle be explained by the laws of nature? Imaginary things, fine, but real things?
And where is ‘outside of reality’ except in the imagination?
‘Nature’ is the place beyond the lens of your eye, where everything with objective existence is found, the same thing as the realm of the physical sciences.
The same thing as ‘reality’, indeed.
Out there in reality we find no gods, spirits, ghosts, souls, demons, familiars, vampires, fairies, not even the headmistress of Hogwarts.
And we can give no useful meaning to the idea ‘outside reality’ – by definition there’s no such real place. so there can only be an imaginary one.
What have I missed?
What real things cannot in principle be explained by the laws of nature? Imaginary things, fine, but real things?
And where is ‘outside of reality’ except in the imagination?