Augustine, St. 32
Bambrough, Richard 58
Bolzano 1
Cantor 1
Church–Turing thesis 33
concept 30–1, 54–5, 85; attainment, empiricist vs. nativist theories of 60–3; introduction of 67–70; (non)observational 68; see also nonconceptual content
conceptual scheme 23, 24, 34–7, 45, 94, 115–16, 120–2
constructivism: in religious studies 110–15
contradiction: argument from 89–95
conveyability/unconveyability 18–19, 75
Crane 117
Cushing 5
Davidson, Donald xi, 20–1, 23, 24, 34–6; on translatability 36–44; on the scheme-content distinction 44–7
Dedekind 1
demonstratives 48–9, 76, 118, 139
Dennett, D. 69
Dogen 152
empirical adequacy 129
epistemic boundedness xii, 2, 18, 52–6, 58–65, 71–2, 82, 95
Epstein 152
Evans 119
externalism, semantic 58
fact: definition of 10
Fodor 2, 18, 26, 36, 52, 53–6, 58–66, 71, 73, 82–3, 95, 120
Gimello, Robert 111
God 2, 6–10, 114; properties of 3–5; linguistic abilities of 34
“God” 5
Gödel 31
Goldman xii, 104, 105, 106–110, 113, 124, 132, 133
Goodman 26
Happold 97
Hardwig 103
Hempel 100
Henle, Paul 80, 90–3, 94–5, 136
Hopi 11, 23–5, 34, 38, 64, 136
Humean mind 55, 60, 66, 68, 71
Huxley, Aldous 111, 116, 117–18, 152
idealism 119
identification 4
idiolect 21
indexicals, 15–16, 17, 48–9, 149
ineffability: cognitive scientific 1–2; deep 57, 65; human 24–8, 64, 71, 83–4, 95–6; logical 31–4, 64, 81, 84, 88, 90, 95, 110, 151; mathematical 1; mystical 79–81, 147–8, 151–2, 154; nomological 28–31, 64, 65, 81, 84, 88, 95, 96; religious 1; “weak” 23, 47, 64, 80, 87–8, 95–6, 109–110
ineffable: insights, 49, 109; intuition 76–7, 82; knowledge, 53; states of affairs xi, 11, 25, 48–9, 53, 75, 84, 135
introspection 68, 69, 104, 124
James, William 8–9, 74–9, 85, 97, 99, 107, 109, 123–4, 126, 137
John of the Cross, St. 78–9, 88, 97
Kaplan 16
Katz, Jerrold 64,
Katz, Steven 99–100, 111–15, 119–122
Lao-Tze 81, Latour & Woolgar 93–4
law of the excluded middle 3
Law, William 152
Locke 101
Manning, Richard 46
McDowell, John 64
McGinn, C. 2, 18, 52, 65–71, 136
mediocrity, argument from 71–3
“miracle” argument for scientific realism 129
Moore, A.W. 1, 5–6, 10, 52, 89–93
Moore’s paradox 149
mystical claims: varieties of 76–7, see also ineffability: mystical
mystical experience 2, 9, 114, 154–5: ineffability of 74–5, 154–6; noetic quality of 74–5, 111; see also ineffability; ineffability: mystical; mysticism
mysticism 1, 52, 74, 77, 80, 93, 97, 99–101, 106, 110, 113–15, 123–4, 135–7, 153, 154, 157; argument from xi, 53, 56, 74, 76, 82, 85, 88, 95
nonconceptual content/experience/knowledge/insight 85, 117–19, 120
non-literal use of language 16–19, 23
Otto, Rudolph 111
Peirce, C.S. 140
Penner, Hans 111
perennialism 110–16, 119–124, 134
Pletcher, Galen 81, 90–3, 94, 136–8
Popper 100
practical knowledge 127–9, 131
Proudfoot, Wayne 111
Przelecki 16
Putnam 129
revelation 74, 85, 99, 101, 102–8
Ricard, Matthieu 125–6, 131, 132
Schick 37
Schuon, Frithjof 111
Smith, Huston 111
Stace 2, 3–4, 5, 8, 80–1, 84–5, 89, 122, 154–5
state of affairs: definition of 10; see also ineffable: states of affairs
Streng 155
Suzuki, D.T. 80
Symonds, J.A. 79
Tao 2
Tarskian: approach 10–12, 24, 44; criticisms of the approach 12–23; criterion of ineffability 48–9, 50–1
testimony 24–6, 38, 41, 86–7, 90, 101–4, 106–8, 122, 124, 133
truth-conditions 10, 15–17, 19–20, 39, 44, 47, 142–3, 147, 150–1
unabducibility 140–6, 148, 156; and ineffability 144–6
Underhill, Evelyn 111
universal grammar 27
unrepresentability 135–9, 141–2, 147, 149, 153
unspeakability 146–8, 149–50, 153, 156
Upanishad, Isa 89
Watts, Alan 111