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A Palamite Perspective on Conflicting Religious Experiences

2025· article· W4415739274 on OpenAlexaff
Travis Dumsday

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Analytic Theology · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheology and Philosophy of Evil
Canadian institutionsConcordia University of Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Variety (cybernetics)TheismReligious experienceReligious controversiesCircumstantial evidence

Abstract

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The claim that religious experiences provide evidence for the truth of theism (or indeed for any specific doctrine) faces the objection that the contents of such experiences are so diverse (often even contradictory) as to belie any notion that they could boost the probability of theism’s truth. Philosophers have in reply put forward a variety of explanations for this diversity. One model suggests that at least some of the apparent conflict can be resolved when one takes into account the fact that God may have diverse attributes or aspects; thus, perhaps some experiencers encounter God qua manifested in one attribute, and others encounter Him in another. After surveying recent formulations of this aspectival explanation, I single out a particular version as especially promising, though it has heretofore received little in the way of sustained attention: namely, a version drawing on the Palamite theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.570
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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