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The somewhat ambigous term preternatural has sometimes been used to describe a category intermediate between the natural and the supernatural – even though those terms would seem to admit no intermediate. In practice the term has sometimes been used as a synonym for supernatural, or sometimes to refer to something which seems miraculous but is assumed not to be supernatural but jsut of unknown cause, or to be due to supernatural events that are not the direct action of the deity.
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