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Many mystics argue that their knowledge claims require no testing, since such knowledge is ‘self-authenticating’. Does this idea make sense? This chapter argues that while there could (perhaps) be self-authenticating experiences, they are not the kind of experiences to which mystics lay claim.
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Dawes, G.W. (2016). Self-Authentication. In: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43500-8_13
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