from Spiritual Journal, 8/28/01
Oct. 5th, 2001 06:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsyche5:42 p.m.
"Induction and deduction are two different ways of reasoning. Inductive reasoning proceeds from experience and experimentation and draws conclusions or principles from them. Deductive reasoning proceeds from theory and develops conclusions that are logically drawn from the premises of the theory. Thus induction is experience based and deduction is logic based."
--Induction/deduction, From Archetype to Zeitgeist, Logic & Reasoning section, p. 95.
6:30 p.m.
Religious/spiritual experience is concrete, insofar as it is "capable of being experienced." GOD, however, is abstract, as it is "conceptual, theoretical, or capable of being attributed to individuals as a quality."
Is there some way of denoting the religious experience without bringing in the concept of GOD? What makes a particular experience "religious"? Is the religious experience necessarily dependent on the notion of GOD?
If not, why not?! That's my question.
"Induction and deduction are two different ways of reasoning. Inductive reasoning proceeds from experience and experimentation and draws conclusions or principles from them. Deductive reasoning proceeds from theory and develops conclusions that are logically drawn from the premises of the theory. Thus induction is experience based and deduction is logic based."
--Induction/deduction, From Archetype to Zeitgeist, Logic & Reasoning section, p. 95.
6:30 p.m.
Religious/spiritual experience is concrete, insofar as it is "capable of being experienced." GOD, however, is abstract, as it is "conceptual, theoretical, or capable of being attributed to individuals as a quality."
Is there some way of denoting the religious experience without bringing in the concept of GOD? What makes a particular experience "religious"? Is the religious experience necessarily dependent on the notion of GOD?
If not, why not?! That's my question.