Question: I'm an ardent physicalist with a belief in the importance of the partial reduction of theories to physicalism. I have on occasion had discussions with philosophers here who challenge the existence of the natural/supernatural dichotomy, or in some way endorse supernaturalism. My question is directed at those who know something about theology and supernaturalism. Thus, despite ontologically rejecting supernaturalism and magic myself, I'm curious about the metaphysical presuppositions of others that entail belief.

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(In response to comments: Naturalism for me is everything conveyed by an athiestic conception of a pluralism of sciences with partial reduction of theory with pragmatic criteria for the distinction of pseudoscience that takes a middle ground between realism and instrumentalism. Supernaturalism is therefore any ontological category outside of this.)  

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**Simply put, for philosophical positions (even of non-Western schools) that accept supernaturalism, does acceptance metaphysically necessitate 'magic' as a category?**

My sense is modern theologians accept 'miracles', but reject 'magic' based on my own discussions with those who profess the [Book of Concord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Concord) as a faithful characterization of Christian doctrine. But theology and supernaturalism is much broader than being a confessional Lutheran, so any relevant perspective, including historical philosophy such as the text of [Mauro Allegranza's link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_magic) is of interest.

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It seems to me that magic is referring to the intervention of someone in the (accepted) laws of a system in order to attain something that otherwise cound not be attained, metaphorically speaking "bending" the laws. On the other hand supernatural refers to something that is happening that is considered outside of the (accepted) laws, either because of ignorance of the (real) laws or because of someone's magic. So magic is from the point of doing something and supernatural from the point of viewing. (It's like energy and information!).
There is no such thing as supernatural. Everything that exists is natural.

Magic comes in two flavours:

* Entertainment magic creates an *illusion* of something impossible.
* "Real" magic is nothing but advanced technology that only looks impossible to an uneducated observer.