I sometimes get stuck on words. Ever use a word over and over and then someone asks you to define what it means and you discover that maybe you weren’t so clear on the meaning of the word to begin with? (This has become painfully more frequent with children.)
The one I’m thinking of at present is ‘supernatural’.
The definition I see is ‘attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature’.
Well science is the rigorous study of nature.
But what is ‘nature’? How do you know what is ‘natural’ or ‘supernatural’? Should that depend on what we know from science so far or is there a more rigorous way to define these terms so we could easily say one thing is natural and another supernatural?