{"id":22454,"date":"2017-08-01T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=22454"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:52:50","slug":"beyond-science-paranormal-vs-supernatural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/beyond-science-paranormal-vs-supernatural\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond science:  paranormal vs supernatural"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, the meanings of words might be surprising. The tutor shares a recent discovery.<\/h1>\n<p><em>Paranormal<\/em>: inexplicable by known science.<\/p>\n<p><em>Supernatural<\/em>: outside the laws of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Are <em>paranormal<\/em> and <em>supernatural<\/em> synonyms? The answer depends on how you define science and nature. I&#8217;d argue that the laws of nature and the laws of science are inseparable, since science exists to describe nature.<\/p>\n<p>If a law of nature is that animals try to survive, then suicide is supernatural. It may not be paranormal, however, since it&#8217;s possibly explicable by psychology.<\/p>\n<p>If ghosts indeed do exist and appear, then they are paranormal. However, it may be a law of nature that entities return in spirit form, but merely a law that, as yet, is not widely known by humans in some socieities.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Laura (editor). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus<\/i>.  Glawgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, the meanings of words might be surprising. The tutor shares a recent discovery. Paranormal: inexplicable by known science. Supernatural: outside the laws of nature. Are paranormal and supernatural synonyms? The answer depends on how you define science and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/beyond-science-paranormal-vs-supernatural\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond science:  paranormal vs supernatural<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2428],"tags":[2429],"class_list":["post-22454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paranormal-supernatural-and-mysteries","tag-what-is-the-difference-between-paranormal-and-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22454"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22476,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions\/22476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}