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The first source of religious knowledge is divination, the interpretation of objects and events as a way of achieving knowledge of the future or the will of the gods. Could such practices yield knowledge? This chapter argues that occasionally they could, although not, perhaps, the kind of knowledge that is claimed for them.
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Dawes, G.W. (2016). Divination. In: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43500-8_9
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