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Religious Experience and Rational Appraisal1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Keith E. Yandell
Keith E. Yandell
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Appeal to experience for rational justification of religious belief is probably as old as the question whether religious belief has any rational support. The issues relevant to such appeal range widely, and I will have to be content to deal with only a few of them.

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Religious Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 173 - 187
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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page 184 note 1 Where S appropriately takes E to be evidence for C only if E meets the relevance conditions with respect to C (cf. p. 180 above).