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| Questão | Responda |
| Empiricism | All knowledge is derived from experience. Experience always means sensory experience. |
| Genuine | There is nothing to imply that it has been contrived by an individual or individuals. |
| Numinous | The feeling of 'holy' and includes awe, fascination, religious awareness and the smallness of self |
| Intellectual conversions | A change in the way of thinking about something |
| Moral conversions | A change in behaviour so that the individual does what is thought to be right |
| Social conversions | Acceptance of a different way of life or worship |
| Mystical experience | A direct and intimate experience of God |
| Divine | A perfect being that is all-powerful and is not comparable to anything human. Eg God |
| Ineffability | The experience cannot be communicated in normal speech |
| Noetic | The mind gaining knowledge and understanding |
| Transiency | Religious experience only last for a limited time |
| Passivity | The religious experience occurs without any action on the part of the recipient |
| Transcendent | God is seperate and superior to the phsical material world. God is outside space and time |
| Immanence | God is in the active world |
| Nature-mysticism | Observing the beauty or vastness and nature triggers a mystical experience |
| God-mysticism | Meditating on the attributes of God and the desire to be one with god triggers a mystical experience |
| Existential judgement | A 'primary' question, concerned with the nature of something. Eg how it came into existence, what it does and of what it is made |
| Value judgement | A 'secondary' question concerned with the meaning, importance and significance of something |
| Medical materialism | To try to explain mystical experiences through a medical cause such as epilepsy |
| Stigmata | Unexplained markings on a person's body that correspond to the wounds of Christ |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | Neuroscience (studies the nervous system), and cognitive neuroscience (the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena such as religious experiences) |
| Correspondence theory | Tries to verify the theory by seeing it is matches to the known facts |
| Coherence theory | Tries to verify the theory by seeing if it agrees with the other truths that have been proved already |
| Pragmatic theory | Tries to verify the theory in practical terms through any benefits gained from the experience |
| Principle of credulity | If a person sees something/someone then it is usually the ase that they have seen something/someone |
| Principle of testimony | Unless you have reliable reasons to doubt what a person says, they have experienced then what is said should be accepted as true |
| Phenomenal world | What is known through the appearance of something |
| Noumenal world | What is known by the mind rather than the senses |
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