Author’s response: Epistemological Uncertainty and Immediacy

Gash, Hugh

Volume 15 · Number 1 · Pages 25–27

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Author’s response: Epistemological Uncertainty and Immediacy

Hugh Gash

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Abstract: The commentaries have provided an opportunity to clarify claims about the synergy between constructivism and mystical experience. The agnosticism of radical constructivism is shared with mysticism. Not all gaps are associated with cognitive change and wonder. Moments of profound insight that follow uncertainty have mysterious origins that affirm the argument concerning a synergy between constructivism and mystical experience.

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Gash H. (2019) Author’s response: Epistemological uncertainty and immediacy. Constructivist Foundations 15(1): 25–27. https://constructivist.info/15/1/025

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