| 词汇 | example_english_supernatural |
| 释义 | Examples of supernaturalThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The question that must be answered is why, if it is real, human beings should be particularly attuned to the existence of the supernatural. Actual historical societies can employ the required institutions and function without revelation from supernatural sources. Gold, however, does not wish to persuade us of supernatural or extraterrestrial forces. The supernatural elements of the plot call forth musical language that goes beyond the ordinary. The capacities of the community to summon aid from the supernatural world were severely eroded. A maximally inclusive supernatural object contains all existing space-times and is not contained in any space-time. My method does not address these topics, but nothing in it is inconsistent with either attempt to distinguish the natural from the supernatural. In contrast, the existence of a supernatural by itself doesn't enable us to predict anything. Unfortunately, there is no way of determining the probability of the religion-asnon-fiction hypothesis with respect to the supernatural. The former is analogous to supernatural realism and the latter to the religion-as-fiction hypothesis. The connections to deities enhanced supernatural ties and ideological power. In this sense the term applies to events in the world ; and they are supernatural only if they are contrary to nature. Supernatural belief was measured either shortly after the primes, or after a significant delay between the primes and the belief measures. The boundaries of the supernatural were likewise those of naturalistic explanation; the limits of the divine and the limits of the natural were interdependent. Miracles are typically conceived not only as supernatural interventions in the natural order, but as interventions which change what would otherwise occur naturally. I suggest that one may, without any prior belief in the existence of such supernatural agents, reasonably come to believe that one has witnessed miracles. I will argue simply that it does not have any ' primacy ' in philosophical theology (or, more widely, in philosophical consideration of the supernatural). In spite of their supernatural strength and their clear determination during the fight, the ghosts want to be conquered. Similarly, hope and love, if thought to have a supernatural object or source, lose their point. The reference to 13 makes it clear that ' supernatural ' here cannot involve intervention in the nature-system. Of course, for the atheist here, the phrase ' believe in ' will not entail assent to a metaphysical proposition about a supernatural reality. In the interests of religious neutrality one should posit as little as possible about the supernatural. Moreover, since it far easier to accept an existing religion than to invent a new one, children will not ' apprehend ' an alternative supernatural. Although leaving scope for the designer, he suggests many details, often concerned with the convincing portrayal of the supernatural. Often fluid scenes portray in-between states of various kinds: the territories that lie between wakefulness and sleep, reality and fantasy, the earthly and the supernatural. There seems to be a few physical "frameworks" and numerous "extras" that modify each image of a supernatural. Ancestral rulers were apotheosized after death and thus were powerful supernatural allies. His famed ' supernatural ' powers even verged on what, within the dichotomised understanding of rational-irrational, was regarded as ridiculous. The ostensible exile of beliefs about the supernatural out of written into oral culture increasingly looks like an optical illusion for the same reason. Supernatural concepts also appear to be influenced by physical embodiment. The criterion (1) of belief in the supernatural rules out commitment theories of religion as adequate, however insightful the latter may be. With it much of the justification of the soba in supernatural terms also vanished. From that time onwards the location became associated with references to the supernatural world and ambiguous stories. The yamauba's is still old and scary, m but her supernatural power is now used to protect her grandson. Probably the main criterion used by anthropologists and others for calling some practice or belief religious is the role that supernatural agents play in it. Unlike validation of ideologically driven commitments, which can involve logical and factual reasoning and possibly ritualization as well, supernatural beliefs can only be ritually validated. By 1980, he had considerably reduced his allusions to the most ' ' esoteric or supernatural issues. Each claims that recent findings in biology provide new evidence for belief in a supernatural designer. Next, isn't any effect of a supernatural cause a miracle ? The "natural" was opposed to both the supernatural and the artificial, but the opposition was not symmetric. The point was to distinguish the preternatural and the supernatural, the wonders (mirabilia) of demons and the miracles (miracula) of saints. On the contrary, the modern concept of the supernatural is a by-product of scientific empiricism. Their efforts to expose and distance themselves from 'fraudsters' who advertised the power of the supernatural were designed to enhance their own status as professionals. Part entertainment, part pedagogical play, the masquerade serves to encourage disbelief in supernatural beings, unmasking angels as real persons dressed up. Throughout the nineteenth century a strong link was forged between the supernatural and femininity. The supernatural was also used to explain or rationalize the extremely gifted. During rituals, the ruler changed into a supernatural being with the material assistance of deity masks, clothing, and ornaments. Throughout the world, societies cast their enemies as physically or mentally warped supernatural beings, or at least in league with the supernatural. Their works may thus be characterised in terms of verbal movement between internal and external, natural and supernatural, dramatic realms. The passage implies that the skulls-and-crossbones cape was placed over the body of a sick child because it contained special, supernatural powers to heal. One moved from the terrestrial world of the plaza with images of the ruler to the supernatural world with cosmological imagery. Their legitimation to rule rested on this election, and the king thus absorbed positive sanction from higher, supernatural authorities. The ar tifacts represent sacred symbols in which supernatural powers reside and evoke the presence of those spirits through creation reenactment or cosmological modeling. Such offerings were vital in the establishment and maintenance of a structure's connection to ancestral spirits and supernatural forces. Consideration must naturally be given to the long-standing claim that perceptions of the supernatural were increasingly shaped by, or reflected, processes of social polarization. Another issue that warrants further examination concerns the extent to which the supernatural was implicated in confessional and party politics. The essence of ageing resided, primarily in its relation to the umzi, community and to the supernatural sphere of the ancestor spirits. What most fail to remark is that the supernatural form described above appears on regalia. Like the headband, this refers to a combination of female potencies (ear th-maize and water spirits) that supplement the thunder-rain-maize power of the supernatural being. In the next section, we address some of the cognitive processes that contribute to the cultural survival of supernatural beliefs. To conclude, we argue that supernatural concepts are governed by the same principles of physical embodiment as mundane concepts. Finally, supernatural agent concepts tend to be emotionally powerful because they trigger evolutionary survival templates. They invoke supernatural agents to deal with emotionally eruptive existential anxieties, such as loneliness, calamity, and death. Thinking about supernatural agents certainly activates such off-line capacities. They activate channels of communication and por tals of travel between the natural and the supernatural. They often represent two worlds, one natural and one supernatural, whose characters and events replicate each other. They should be defined as signs of particular volitions of the deity or of other supernatural agents. First, this would exclude the possibility of nondivine supernatural entities (the evil, angels, etc). Moreover, intra-tradition agreements are easily explainable without recourse to a supernatural ontology. Mere supernatural causation of natural events is not enough. The first is that there is a supernatural and that religion could be the result of a successful discovery of it. If religion is successfully truth-oriented, there are questions about how people have managed to apprehend the supernatural. On the religionas-fiction hypothesis, a single hypothetical supernatural suffices to provide the requisite psychological comfort. There can be no doubt that there would be a great deal if there were no supernatural. Supernatural characters, however, seemed to require less rigorous explanations. The natural and supernatural were mutually exclusive, separated in theory if not in practice by a sharp boundary. Thus, the same phenomenon will count as natural relative to some sets of conditions and supernatural with respect to others. The fever is for "pleasure," at once a sickness and a purpose, a natural and an unnatural goal, a supernatural nonsense and a supreme inspiration. Both authors make the same point: that supernatural manifestations are entirely natural. The discourses of spiritualism and occultism collapse the poles of this defining dichotomy by insisting that the supernatural is natural. The attempt to naturalize the supernatural was meant to cancel out the divide between matter and spirit, knowledge and value, science and revelation. The onlooker does manage, with the help of the supernatural, to experience the auratic object in its "original" context. In the coda to the only group of tales told by a woman, she is punished by supernatural forces for having told them. If there were a multiplicity of supernaturals, however, then the fact that the religious almost never perceive more than one would require explanation. She controls water for people and other supernaturals as well as the rivers and sea and their fish. Two independent lines of evidence bolster the case that our operationalization of counterintuitive beliefs captures the core definition of supernaturals in cultural narratives and religions. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the association of scribes with various supernaturals or deities. Against this frame, the protagonist is once again exposed as entirely unmindful of the supernatural world which sustains human forms. He looked for signs of a faith more supernatural, less conventional, more revolutionary. Sacred places are a focus ofritualactivities, in which communication with the supernatural is the dominant theme. The relative pronouns and noun phrases in the cor pus have different types of referents: humans, physical objects, and supernatural and abstract phenomena. The infant aspect of these figurines represents a supernatural or non-human dimension. The almond-eyed supernatural may have a cleft head, with or without maize sprouting from it. More important than this however is their general resistance to religion and their denial of the supernatural and an after life. A hill with a hollow provides dead ground, and this could be a lurking place for natural or supernatural enemies. Why does this so frequently take the form of supernatural agents? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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