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In this chapter I shall not be concerned with specifically religious experience, but I shall make some comments on the notion of ‘experience’ in general. I shall suggest that sophisticated people have tampered with the ordinary uses of this word and have thereby distorted the facts, thus generating unnecessary disputation.
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E. G. Boring, H. S. Langfeld and W. P. Weld, Psychology (Wiley, New York, 1936) pp. 4–7.
For further discussion see T. R. Miles, ‘The Mental-Physical Dichotomy’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, lxiv (1964) 71–84.
For further discussion see B. A. Farrell, ‘Experience’, Mind, n.s., lix (1950) 170–98, reprinted in V. C. Chappell (ed.), The Philosophy of Mind (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962) pp. 23–48.
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Miles, T.R. (1972). Experiences and Mental Events. In: Religious Experience. New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00741-7_2
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