
Posted by John Snowden on June 16, 2009, 11:37 am, in reply to "Answer"
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You are superficial as usual. Dictionary definitions are merely reportive definitions, reporting common usages. They typically omit some of the meaning of abstract concepts. In this case the normative sense that the adjective "natural" sometimes has has been overlooked. Checking a dictionary for a meaning is not conceptual analysis. In any case you have not answered the question which was not a request for a dictionary definition but what YOU meant by "natural means".
Your statement that I am always giving assignments is false. The question arises as to why you would resort to misleading hyperbole or fibbing when you have been merely asked to explain your concept. What do you have against the idea of explaining your own concept? No confidence beyond reporting dictionary entries?
Now go ahead and explain what natural means are, and while you are at it, explain unnatural means and supernatural means too. Share your understanding (surely worth something) with the board.