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Sometimes it refers only to those parts of everything that someone such as you or I could, in principle, have access to.
Interesting. Universe defined as what a human observer directly beholds. This would allow for that reflexive-expansive definition, where there can never be a "super" natural, because the moment we observe it we claim superiority over it, making it "natural."
It's the "stacked deck" defense of naturalism.
“That is their glory. Holding a philosophy which excludes humanity, they yet remain human.”
― Miracles
― Miracles
“The deeply ingrained habit of truncated thought—what we call the ‘scientific’ habit of mind—was indeed certain to lead to Naturalism, unless this tendency were continually corrected from some other source. But no other source was at hand, for during the same period men of science were coming to be metaphysically and theologically uneducated.”
― Miracles
― Miracles
“A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live: a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go; to stay here is death.”
― Miracles
― Miracles
“In the conditions produced by a century or so of Naturalism, plain men are being forced to bear burdens which plain men were never expected to bear before. We must get the truth for ourselves or go without it.”
― Miracles
― Miracles
Brian C Melton’s 2025 Year in Books
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