Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that The evidential standard for religious experience should require only 'confirming experiential evidence,' not evidence analogous to sense-perception.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Disanalogists take sense-perception as the paradigmatic standard for all epistemic justification.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Disanalogists only accept confirming or disconfirming evidence when it is strongly analogous to evidence available for sensory perception.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.This equating of evidential standards is too restrictive — the requirement should be confirming experiential evidence of whatever kind is available.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    2 perspectives
    Reason against 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.William Alston's doxastic practice framework shows that perceptual and religious belief-forming practices are each self-supporting and mutually irreducible.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Demanding cross-domain analogical parity privileges one doxastic practice over another without independent justification, committing a form of epistemic imperialism.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.A practice is prima facie justified if it is socially established and yields internally consistent outputs, which mystical experience traditions demonstrably satisfy.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason against 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.C.I. Lewis argued that any experiential evidence gains justificatory force through its role in coherent networks of experience, not solely through sensory-type causal chains.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Religious experiences exhibit internal coherence, cross-cultural convergence, and transformative consistency, satisfying Lewis's network-based evidential standard on their own terms.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.