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    It is not the case that William Alston's doxastic practice framework treats religious experience as epistemically direct perception, not paradoxical mediation.

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    • 1.Religious experiences require extensive theological frameworks and interpretation to become meaningful—unlike direct sensory perception of objects.
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    • 2.Subjects across different traditions report conflicting ultimate referents for identical experiences, suggesting mediation by background beliefs.
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    • 3.No independent verification method exists for religious perception, unlike sensory modalities whose outputs can be cross-checked and calibrated.
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    • 1.Perceptual experiences in ordinary domains (vision, touch) are epistemically basic without requiring further justification from other beliefs.
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    • 2.Religious experiences exhibit structural parallels to sensory perception: they have phenomenal character, are involuntary, and resist doubt.
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    • 3.Treating religious experience as mediated by interpretation undermines practitioners' own epistemic authority about their experience's nature.
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