# Determinism and evidentiary value of belief based on personal experience

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The post argues that personal experience can motivate both scientific and unscientific conclusions, so scientific authority requires more than an idealised method.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 19 December 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: determinism, intelligent-design, cognition, scientific-method.

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