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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
Per Russell's "mysticism and logic", the difference between mysticism and logic (He uses the term logic as a tag for reason and the scientific method in general) is purely epistemic. They are two ...
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Is religious authority justified?
This really comes down to what you accept as "justification." Most religious authorities have claims to justification within their own framework of religious beliefs, but those are generally ...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
The essential distinction is this:
Mysticism focuses on our subjective experience of the world.
Metaphysics focuses on our objective ontological understanding of the world.
The core idea in ...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
Mysticism tends to be in the rubric of which Wittgenstein spoke as ‘that of which we cannot speak, of that we must remain silent.’ Whereas metaphysics can be spoken about adnauseum!
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Is religious authority justified?
If we're outside of logic (you wish to learn about noninferential judgments of authorities) then what good is any argument we offer to justify the legitimacy of illogical judgments. Note though that ...
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Does our language determine our "religious experiences"?
Languages are not completely inter-translatable as, to take an easy example, anyone knows who has (tried to) translate from Classical Greek into English : Classical Greek has words for which we do not ...
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Is there a version of the divine-hiddenness problem based specifically on the cognitive side of schizophrenia treatment?
Ah, your gifts have a price, I see. From a person on one spectrum to another, the ought question, if one has some knowledge and belief in psychotherapy, hinges upon an intersection of the therapeutic ...
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Is religious authority justified?
It seems that you are implying that there could be some substantial difference between religious authority and non-religious authority when it comes to justification. But there isn't.
Ultimately, ...
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Is religious authority justified?
Deeming a belief to fall outside reasoned analysis and empirical verifiability would prevent you from seeing (or greatly limit your ability to see) that it's false and/or that you have bad reasons for ...
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Does our language determine our "religious experiences"?
Michael Polanyi claims (page 7)
...all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge.
If that is the case the relationship suggested in the title is backwards. Our tacit sense of the ...
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Secrets/Esotericism in Mysticism
I’d like to learn about why the mystics thought their content should be kept secret.
Oskar Adler's explanation in Astrology as Occult Science might be of interest to you. In many (if not all) ...
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Secrets/Esotericism in Mysticism
There were widespread mystery cults in the ancient world, like the Eleusinian Mysteries which both Socrates and Plato were known to have taken. In Ancient Greek society it was considered necessary to ...
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Does time have a changing speed?
You are confusing the scientific definition of time (what a clock measures) with your intuitive feeling of how things change. This has nothing to do with time being relative according to relativity ...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
Apologies if this meta-question comment/critique is not appropriate here. I'm not certain if it is appropriate because, in a way, the critique may apply to all questions in this forum. That said...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
I appreciate all the thoughtful and informed responses to this question. At the same time, I think there is a large missing piece in the responses.
If metaphysics is an externalized route to identify/...
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