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    Challenges→The evidential standard for religious experience should require only 'confirming experiential evidence,' not evidence analogous to sense-perception.

    Disanalogists take sense-perception as the paradigmatic standard for all epistemic justification.

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    Regarding the bearing of the alleged disanalogies on the Argument from Experience, the disanalogists take the evidential credentials of sense-perception as paradigmatic for epistemology. They equate confirming and disconfirming evidence only when evidence strongly analogous to the kind for sensory perception is available. However, the evidential requirement should be only “confirming experiential evidence,” be what it may. If God-sightings have confirming evidence, even if different from the kin

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