Questions tagged [experience]
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What's the difference between objectivity and intersubjective agreement?
Suppose a multitude of people all recount similar experiences. They describe seeing a cup on a table or observing the Moon in the sky. Each person reports their own subjective experience of perceiving ...
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If A is justified in believing in X based on their personal experience, can B also be justified in believing in X based on A's testimony?
The title already expresses the question perfectly well, so I don't see much point in complicating the question further, beyond including a few thought-provoking examples below:
Example 1: The ...
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Are the subjective experience of the "inner witness of the Holy Spirit" and the subjective experience of an external world of equal epistemic value? [closed]
In 1998, Dr William Lane Craig debated Professor Keith M. Parsons at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, TX. The topic of the debate was "Why I Am/Am Not a Christian." After the debate ...
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Can belief in God be grounded in (and justified by) personal experience rather than philosophical argumentation?
Attempts at legitimizing belief in God through reasoned philosophical argumentation abound in the fields of natural theology and apologetics. This is particularly evident in formal debates and ...
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Are we only justified in holding beliefs that are supported by evidence susceptible to peer review, leading to substantial intersubjective consensus?
In other words, what about beliefs rooted in personal experiences that cannot be scrutinized or validated through a rigorous peer-review process? This often occurs in religious, mystical, or spiritual ...
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Can religious, mystical, or spiritual experiences reveal truth?
To what extent can we acquire reliable knowledge about the world through religious, mystical, or spiritual experiences?
Does the answer hinge on the context of these experiences?
Does the answer hinge ...
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Is introspection considered a form of empirical experience?
In my philosophical readings, it appears there is no consensus on this issue among some of the great philosophical minds, or given differences in their expressions I don't perceive a consensus. ...
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Why do I have the perception of a chair (or other objects) ? - first person experience question
I'm asking variations of this question (in discussions elsewhere).
Some people seem to get what I mean, and say "I think that important etc etc but I do not know the answer" and others say &...
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How aren't Qualia and Experience the same thing (examples.)
I'm both, trying to find if this thought process is valid (reach correct conclusions in the questions) and also how are the standard interpretations different (which it seems they are.)
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How do we know if our interpretation of our raw conscious experiences is accurate?
X is a conscious agent. X has the ability to have raw subjective conscious experiences, aka qualia. But beyond merely experiencing qualia, X also has the ability to interpret their qualia, by ...
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What can a person not categorize in the process of his knowledge acquisition?
When a subject learns about the world and gets experience as a result, he builds his own mental representations - thereby essentially differentiating the world (that is, dividing it into abstract ...
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What is the name of the internal relationship system of human experience?
In the course of his life, the subject receive an experience with which he differentiated and perceive the world. Therefore, we can say that there are categories inside its "term name". Here ...
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Can private experiences justify private belief in supernaturalism?
Is it ever rational or justified to believe in supernaturalism on the basis of private experiences (of the kind for which publicly accesible evidence can hardly be produced)? If someone has private ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
Context: this is a follow-up to my last question Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
Suppose A has a subjective experience (or multiple subjective experiences) that leads them ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
Suppose there are two persons A and B.
A attests to having witnessed some extraordinary event, e.g. A claims to have had an extraordinary religious experience with an other-worldly entity. Let's say ...
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Classifications of experience [closed]
By experience, I mean all the content that I receive, which I have sub-divided into three categories:
Percepts, the content corresponding to the different senses (sight, hearing, olfaction, taste, ...
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Testing of complex systems
I wasn't sure were to post this question, seems ill fitted for most content I see.
In software development there is a procedure for testing software that includes unit testing, integration testing, ...
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What is the name of this view, that consciousness builds reality?
The following is really my own conception, but I have no credentials in philosophy. Nevertheless, I find it quite compelling.
It is said (Hegel?) that mind has the property that (a) it is inside ...
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Belief, in 'divine madness'
Theia mania (Ancient Greek: θεία μανία) is a term used by Plato in his dialogue Phaedrus to describe a condition of divine madness (unusual behavior attributed to the intervention of a God).
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Is Architecture a Language?
I am puzzling over this question awhile, and I can’t find any good, clear reference on the topic without going way to deep into linguistics and getting too abstract. Can anybody explain to me if ...
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Are "aesthetic experiences" limited to art and music?
I was wondering whether philosophers consider aesthetic experiences to be something that permeate through a range of day to day experiences or if they're limited to art.
For example, can learning/...
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Experience as an initial value problem?
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The argument seems to say just as I have a physical initial value problem and with the laws of physics tell the time evolution, similarly, I can have an initial value problem of experience ...
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Examples of "a priori knowledge" in Kant
What are some good examples of a priori knowledge that must exist independent of experience and transcend it? How can we be certain that such is indeed a priori?
The example Kant mentions in the ...
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Assumption about the existence of "knowledge a priori" by Kant
I am just starting to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason translated by Max Mueller. In the introductory chapter, "General truths, which at the same time, bear the character of an inward ...
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If syntax isn’t semantics, will we abandon syntax one day to tackle the first person perspective? [closed]
Say by building experience machines once we learn how brains better work.
If syntax isn’t semantics, we will never write down a depiction of the first person subjective perspective, where semantics ...
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How can the sensation of pain be explained materialistically?
Physicalism, be it reductionist or holistic, tries to explain every phenomenon by materialisic processes. These can be seen as noumenon, existing independently of human beings.
But the true nature of ...
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What resemblance is there between Moksha and Nirvana?
Both Moksha and Nirvana are said to free oneself from the cycle of reincarnations/samsara. Other than this soteriological goal, do they have any resemblances?
And how does/can one know in which path (...
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Something similar to The Knowledge Argument which works within Physicalism?
Here is The Knowledge Argument according to SEP (Mary is either monochrome or views the world through monochrome monitor):
(1) Mary has all the physical information concerning human color vision ...
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Are physicalists at all in agreement what happens to conciousness if the rate of time is changed?
For the sake of ease of imagination, maybe it's good to use a Machian defintion of time, time is the relative configuration of all physical bodies+fields. I also want to be agnostic about the flow of ...
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Is this how the static block universe, arrow of time, and conscious experience hang together?
In the static block universe we posit a view-from-nowhere perspective.
When taking such a vantage, the thermodynamic arrow of time does not establish a preferred ontological direction of time. There ...
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