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what is meant by... mystical experience? |
experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience |
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what is meant by... conversion experience? |
an experience which produces a radical change in someones belief system |
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what is meany by... corporate religious experience? |
religious experiences which happen to a group of people "as a body" |
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what is meant by... numinous experience? |
an indescribable experience which invokes feelings of awe, worship and fascination |
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what is meant by... principle of credulity? |
Swinburne's principle that we should usually believe what our senses tell us we are pecieving |
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what is meany by... principle of testimony? |
Swinburne's principle that we should usually trust that other people are telling us the truth |
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what is meant by... naturalistic explanation? |
an explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes |
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what is meant by... neurophysiology? |
an area of science which studies the brain and the nervous system |
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William James identified 4 main qualities of religious experience... what were they? |
1. Ineffability 2. Noetic quality 3. Transience 4. Passivity |
