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    It is not the case that Understanding why mystical paradoxes affirm and then deny features requires having a mystical experience

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    • 1.Apophatic theology from Pseudo-Dionysius through Maimonides demonstrates that logical analysis of predication limits suffices to generate mystical paradoxes.
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    • 2.The via negativa tradition shows trained theological reasoning, not experiential states, historically produced the affirmation-then-denial structure.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's analysis of ineffability shows paradoxical language arises from grammar straining against conceptual limits, not from privileged experiential access.
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    • 2.If paradoxes were experientially gated, cross-traditional convergence on identical paradoxical structures across isolated mystics would be inexplicable without positing shared linguistic-conceptual constraints.
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    • 1.The reasons for affirming certain features of mystical experience are accessible only through mystical experience
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    • 2.The reasons for denying those same features as not truly applicable are likewise accessible only through mystical experience
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