| 词汇 | example_english_supernatural-agent |
| 释义 | supernatural agentcollocation in Englishmeanings of supernaturaland agentThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with agent. supernatural adjective uk /ˌsuː.pəˈnætʃ.ər.əl/ us /ˌsuː.pɚˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/ caused by forces that cannot be explained ... See more at supernatural agent noun[C] uk /ˈeɪ.dʒənt/ us /ˈeɪ.dʒənt/ a person who acts for or ... See more at agent Examples of supernatural agentThese 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. For example, the unintentional breaking of a mirror may have an effect on the supernaturalagent responsible for causing natural agents bad luck. 13. Finally, supernaturalagent concepts tend to be emotionally powerful because they trigger evolutionary survival templates. Why is it necessary, and how it is possible, to validate belief in supernaturalagent concepts that are logically and factually inscrutable? Supernaturalagent concepts may only be endorsed if there is empirical evidence of their behaviors in the natural environment. Why are some supernaturalagent concepts inherently better candidates for cultural selection than others? Clarke believes that in order for an event to qualify as a miracle a supernaturalagent must intend it. 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. 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. Why does this so frequently take the form of supernatural agents? Thinking about supernatural agents certainly activates such off-line capacities. They should be defined as signs of particular volitions of the deity or of other supernatural agents. This question presupposes that we have a notion of religion that is (1) well enough defined, and (2) characterized independently of that of supernatural agents. In sum, supernatural agents are readily conjured up because natural selection has trip-wired cognitive schema for agency detection in the face of uncertainty. Supernatural agents (or their natural proxies) perform miracles, and performances are intentional activities. On this interpretation, the event is an intended outcome of a supernatural agent's intervention in the natural world, again a miracle on my view. Religion exploits only ordinary cognitive processes to passionately display costly devotion to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents. They have religious significance because they are instrumental to the plans of supernatural agents, as interpreted by natural agents. Dennett's working definition of religions is: social systems whose participants avow belief in a supernaturalagent or agents whose approval is to be sought. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the control conditions, the correlations between religious identification and belief in culturally alien supernatural agents were no different from zero. In contrast, intelligent design is fundamentally unscientific; it can not be tested as scientific theory because its central conclusion is based on belief in the intervention of a supernaturalagent. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of supernatural Go to the definition of agent See other collocations with agent |
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