Argument from Religious Experience

DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.

Argument form

Modus ponens (P4 is the universal; P3 instantiates it)

Concludes to

Intelligent agent (a higher power, continuous with man's higher self and operative in the universe)

Premise ground

Metaphysical (what produces effects within another reality must itself be termed real)

Modal strength

Actual

What it licenses

• power (higher power)
• transcendence (operative in the universe outside us)

Period

Twentieth Century (1902)

Tradition

Pragmatist

This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.

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