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William James

1842–1910

Lived

1842–1910

Place

Harvard, Massachusetts

In the seventh paragraph

The American philosopher popularized the phrase “block universe” for a world that is fixed and complete.

In the eighth paragraph

American philosopher and psychologist. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) treated religious experience as something to study seriously. His four marks of mystical states are ineffability, noetic quality (the sense of gaining knowledge), transiency and passivity.

Where they appear

Metaphysics: What is there, and what for? · Reconstruction: Chapter I · 1. Religion and philosophy · 8. Inner experience as knowledge · 9. Psychology and the mystic state · 11. Two tests of truth

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