ABSTRACT

What should we make of the concept of privately perceivable objects, that is to say of entities which have the power to make themselves detectable only by selected people at selected times and in selected ways? We have seen that the existence of such entities could give the theist a powerful tool. It would enable her to undermine claims that experiences of God must be illusory because they all fail the types of checks referred to on pp. 157-8 above.