RE: Theistic Inclinations
February 24, 2017 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2017 at 10:50 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 23, 2017 at 7:58 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Indeed the characteristics of what you are attempting is inherently non-replicable.
It's more akin to describing hallucinations under the influence of narcotics, which vary considerably between individuals being 'good' or 'bad' at random.
Not so. If two or more people do the same thing and experience the the same result then the results have been replicated. It is no different that testing antidepressant or pain relief drugs. If people take the same medicine and most experiece relief then there has been independent replication.
That said you point is well taken. Even if the experiences are equivalent how are they to be interpreted? The question remains as to whether or not the phenomenon corresponds to any object independent of the subject. I would ague that this is true of all phenomena since no one can step outside themselves and their first person relationship with reality. The external existense of nearly everything, and especially what we call physical, is infered.
