Questions tagged [experience]
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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