Religious Experience
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- Created on: 09-04-16 10:31
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- Religious Experience
- Direct experience
- indirect experience
- public realm
- private realm
- subject to description through everyday language
- mystical experience
- Swinburne
- the principle of credulity
- we have good reasonto suppose that what we see is actually what is there
- the principle of testimony
- we should not doubt what people report, provided that there are no special considerations
- the principle of credulity
- William James
- number of hallmarks for mystical experience
- ineffable - gain of knowledge through mystical experience
- form of knowledge that cannot be easily described or written down
- noetic - the experience is not just an emotional one, provides new knowledge, insight and enlightemnet
- transient - it cannot be maintained for a lenghty period of time
- passive - the experience overhelms the recipient and he or she is a passive receiver
- ineffable - gain of knowledge through mystical experience
- number of hallmarks for mystical experience
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