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View submission: There Is Nothing Natural
The problem here is that it makes the word "natural" meaningless, even though it's useful in many cases. For example, if someone is talking about a natural nuclear fission reactor, you know they're not talking about a power plant. If a landlord promised natural light, you're probably expecting sunlight from a window, not light bulbs.
Comment by mdavey74 at 17/02/2025 at 16:04 UTC
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Sure, I think there’s two different dichotomies in play here. One is natural/unnatural which I’m claiming is false because there is only the natural world that exists and ‘unnatural’ is just a placeholder for something we don’t understand. The other is natural vs artificial, where artificial is something created by modern human beings and it explicitly excludes everything else.