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Comment author: Will_Newsome 15 June 2012 08:03:36AM *  4 points [-]

(AFAIK discerning the relationship or lack thereof between possible Xes and Y is called discernment, e.g. discernment of spirits, or sometimes paracletics. That said, I haven't been very impressed with the stuff I've found. I'm really intrigued by Plantinga's idea of a defeater-defeater, but I have no freakin' idea how something like that would work in practice. Or at least, I don't see how you could get the certainty that Plantinga seems to think is possible. I personally have never had an experience that I felt could not possibly have come from anywhere except God. ...Phenomenology is hard, let's go shopping.)