But how do you know that you cannot know? Do you know the answer?

there is a million different ways you might know that you cant know something. say you know that your instrument does not detect certain types of matter. then you know you cannot know about that type of matter until you get a better instrument. and you know you can never know if the material used to create that instrument no longer exists.

Doesn't this stuff fall under "don't know"? — jorndoe

I was just trying to make sense of the intent behind the creation of the word "supernagic".

It provides adequate room for scientists to enter into the foray of the so-called "supernatural". After all, in line with Karl Popper's falsifiability theory of science, any measurement/observation contradictory to known laws of nature would immediately fall under the term "supernatural". This wouldn't be good for science right?

So for scientists to make the distinction between the "supernatural" that needs explaining through research and the "supernatural" that's "explained" as god's handiwork we need "supernagic".

What does it mean to be unknowable? Is it that it is knowable to some, but not to others? Or is it that there is nothing to know at all - that we are mistaking imaginary things for real things and then asking questions about those imaginary things as if they were real. — Harry Hindu

it simply means you know that you cannot know. because there is something blocking your limited ability to know.

thing can be temporarily unknowable or permanently unknowable

and you can potential know that — OmniscientNihilist

I don't see how that answers my question.

Define "knowing".

I don't think there's any reason to think supernagic is real, but it's meaningful. That's why we can create fictional stories with supernagic in it.

The show Supernatural has the more powerful beings just snapping their fingers. Interesting that Q on Star Trek would do the same thing, but his race wasn't considered supernagical.