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To: kosta50
Actually they are; it's just that some meet the absolute criteria closer than others, and are therefore "ranked" accordingly.

What "absolute criteria" would that be?

What metephysicial nature?

Not unlike what you referred to earlier when you stated that "our proofs must be compatible with our nature", I am referring to the essential properties of the things under discussion; "history" "event", "hot stove", "claim", "criteria", "proof", "assumption", "concept", "knowledge", "reason", "nature", "justification" "truth" and so on.

I said discovered, not invented or imagined, or blindly believed, presumed, assumed, presupposed. If sometihng "supernatural" has been disocvered, then please tell us where it was discovery and when, and what exactly is it that was discoevred. If you don't mind, that is.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead as an event in space/time history - would that qualify as something supernatural in your mind?

Cordially,

3,486 posted on 11/28/2010 3:16:25 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond
What "absolute criteria" would that be?

Absolute criteria would be an unattainable, but approachable ideal of certainty. The greater the probability and statistical confidence, the closer you are to the ideal.

Not unlike what you referred to earlier when you stated that "our proofs must be compatible with our nature"

That's not "metaphysical." Our nature is material. Our size, and our makeup determines what we can  and cannot do, what we can and cannot see, etc.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead as an event in space/time history - would that qualify as something supernatural in your mind?

Not necessarily.

3,522 posted on 11/28/2010 8:36:35 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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