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  • "Relational cognitivity" is the term neuroscientist and theologian Nina Azari uses to describe the brain's processing of religious experiences.

    Matt J. Rossano: Understanding Religion Through the Lens of Relationships Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • He gives this argument in the course of addressing what he calls "the analogical argument for cognitivity," which he associates with William Alston,

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • First, strictly speaking, Gale is objecting to this argument by objecting to premise 1; so, strictly speaking, his conclusion would not be that religious experience or belief is not cognitive, but only that this particular argument for its cognitivity fails.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • This "big disanalogy" will prove to be the shipwreck of this defense of cognitivity, a time for Alston, Gutting,

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • It begins with a playful threat directed at those who, as Gale thinks, accept the analogical argument for the cognitivity of religious experience:

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

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