contrary to experience

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  • contrary — 1. The position of the main stress has fluctuated over the centuries, and the OED notes that poets from Chaucer to Spenser and Shakespeare placed it on both the first and the second syllable according to need. In current English, the stress is… …   Modern English usage

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience — Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that …   Wikipedia

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  • Apparitional experience — In psychology and parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous, quasi perceptual experience.In scientific or academic discussion the term apparitional experience is to be preferred to the term ghost in respect of the following… …   Wikipedia

  • Argument from religious experience — The Argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God, as against materialism.Outline logical structureIts logical structure is essentially as follows: # There are compelling reasons for considering at least some… …   Wikipedia

  • out-of-body experience — (OBE or OOBE)    Also known as out of the body experience. In biomedicine, both terms are used to denote atypeof autoscopic phenomenon that may occur either during sleep or wakefulness, involving a sensation of being outside and above one s… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • Miracle — • In general, a wonderful thing, the word being so used in classical Latin; in a specific sense, the Latin Vulgate designates by miracula wonders of a peculiar kind, expressed more clearly in the Greek text by the terms terata, dynameis, semeia,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Miracle —    An event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God, operating without the use of means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authenticate the divine commission of a religious… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • Epistemology — • That branch of philosophy which is concerned with the value of human knowledge Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Epistemology     Epistemology      …   Catholic encyclopedia

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