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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
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On 2025-05-27 10:04, Paul S Person wrote:
> On 26 May 2025 15:53:04 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
> wrote:
> 
>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>>> 1. That is an intellectualist/atheist definition of "miracle",
>>> intended to show that none exist. The actual meaning is "something
>>> worth looking at". Or perhaps "something you don't see every day".
>>
>>   However, have you heard of the "etymological fallacy," where
>>   someone wrongly argues that a word's current meaning must be
>>   the same as its original or historical meaning, ignoring the
>>   fact that language evolves over time?
>>
>>   I have my dictionary right here, and it says, "An event that
>>   appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to
>>   be supernatural in origin or an act of God".
>>
>>   Oops! Sorry, I was being an "intellectualist" again!
> 
> Just because the intellectuals and atheists won the battle to make
> that the definition does not change the reality.

Feel free to prove that what you consider to be reality is factual.

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"A word that contains all six vowels? Do you want those vowels
  to appear in alphabetical order?" asked Tom facetiously.