Notes about the Donovan extract paragraphs 1 and 2
Bits which need explaining to the examiner: Essentially reason vs. inner conviction faith belief instinctive /innate knowing arguing from religious experience (if x has experienced God then God must...
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Is religious experience the ultimate argument for the existence of God? It is regarded by theists as the ultimate argument because it is so personal and convincing that it gives experients an utter...
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His argument is his worry that people who have religious experiences claim a superior kind of knowledge and unquestioning 'rightness' on the basis of it. He says these people are convinced they are...
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Ayer Why does Ayer claim that assertions made about a transcendent God are not intelligible notions? Why does Ayer reject the notion of God with a capital ‘G’? Why does Ayer suggest that the atheist...
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(iii) ‘Experience of’ is not in itself knowledge Suppose it were indisputable that God is genuinely experienced in some form of first-hand awareness. It does not follow that such first-hand experience...
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