Episode 45, Referring to God with Hugh Burling
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Can the Causal Theory of Reference Satisfy Accessibility and Scope?
Can the causal theory of reference satisfy accessibility and scope? Ok. So bill alston identified this as whatever the object that abraham and his tribe could pick out in their mystical perceptual field, as distinguished from other deities or hilltops or whatever it was,. And then you pass that on. As soon as you've got a mystical practice going, you can start helping other people identify it. And then you can and teach them that that's what god is called. That's all mean by god. This is a big problem though, which is, ah, that because of some of the difficulties of mystical experience and its phenomenal strangeness, because of its exclusivity relative to sense perception. These
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