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Exceptional Human Experience Exceptional Human Experience
Exceptional Human Experience (Journal) Semiannual journal founded and edited by Rhea A. White. Its central subject matter is exceptional human experience, which consists of experiences that begin as anomalous ones or anomalies of experience (first-time experiences) and when they become... Read more
Religious experience Religious experience
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Most of the philosophical work on "religious experience" that has appeared since 1960 has been devoted to its phenomenology and epistemic status. Two widely shared assumptions help account for this—that religious beliefs and practices are rooted in religious feelings and... Read more
experience experience
experience living through events and the impression on a person or animal of events. In epistemology, a distinction is made between things known inductively, from experience, and those known deductively or theoretically, from a priori principles. The ancients, under the influence of Plato and of... Read more
Experiment Experiment
EXPERIMENT. This entry traces the life of experiment from its emergence in the early seventeenth century to its transformation to a collective activity after World War II. The topics discussed include the rise of experimental philosophy and its institutional expression in the new scientific... Read more
Miller-Urey Experiment Miller-Urey Experiment
Miller-Urey experiment A classic experiment in molecular biology , the Miller-Urey experiment, established that the conditions that existed in Earth's primitive atmosphere were sufficient to produce amino acids, the subunits of proteins comprising and required by living organisms. In essence, the... Read more
Michelson-Morley experiment Michelson-Morley experiment
Michelson-Morley Experiment The luminiferous ether The Michelson interferometer The null result Resources In 1887, two American scientists, Polish-born physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931) and physical chemist Edward Williams Morley (1838 Read more
Jan van Helmont Jan van Helmont
van Helmont, Jan Flemish physician and chemist 1579–1644 Jan van Helmont was an early pioneer in the study of gases, and performed numerous chemical experiments, including an analysis of smoke, distinguishing it from ordinary air by the particles it ... Read more
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empiricism [Gr.,=experience], philosophical doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. For most empiricists, experience includes inner experience—reflection upon the mind and its operations—as well as sense perception. This position is opposed to rationalism in that it... Read more
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transcendentalism in philosophy, term descriptive of systems that hold that there are modes of being and principles of existence beyond the reach of mundane experience and manipulation. The term is now closely associated with Kantian theory, although some conception of transcendent being has been... Read more

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