Name the task: description, prevalence, independent sequence, or cause. Follow selection, counting units, recording time, and testing. Testimony contributes within its scope; another question needs additional grounds.
Questions explored
Does insufficient testimony mean a useless account?
No. An account can describe experience and open inquiry. Prevalence, external sequence, and cause require different further grounds; respect does not supply these transitions.
Can several records from one person count as independent people?
The units differ in this exercise. Clarify people, episodes, and segments; numerous records add no absent denominator or independence.
Must an unusual state be reproduced for reading?
No. Use an existing public text. No induction, interrupted sleep, treatment, or imaginative memory recovery is proposed.
Key distinctions
MPE obtains anonymous retrospective reports; self-selection and unverifiable identity limit conclusions. (Gamma and Metzinger 2021, Methods and Limitations 431–454.)
Dream Catcher obtained no significantly above-chance classification in 54 selected recordings from nine participants. (Wong and colleagues 2020, five disclosure steps/results/Discussion.)
Hume criticises miracle testimony, while Teresa attributes inner transformation to her Lord; their disagreement remains. (Hume X §§86–93; Teresa XXV §§1–6/23, Lewis 1904.)
Readers can clarify evidence pathways and retain uncertainty without seeking a new unusual episode. (Original UW reasoning in this article.)
Limits of interpretation
- Description, prevalence, independent records, and cause are distinct; response/person/episode/minute are different units. No population prevalence or final brain/religious cause established; a gap differs from a negative result and supplies no metaphysical proof. No dangerous induction, altered sleep/treatment, or memory recovery. Original reading practice has no efficacy test.
Sources
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — David Hume; L. A. Selby-Bigge, editor
Fresh title/editor/edition/host notice 0–31; complete selected Section X Part I §§86–91, displayed 592–626, and Part II §§92–93, 629–641. Initial author reading stopped at 636; the remaining §93 paragraphs 637–641 were genuinely read during the bounded correction at https://dev.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9662/pg9662-images.html, with 629–636 context and title/edition/host notice 0–31 also read. The same ebook 9662 identifies Selby-Bigge second edition 1902; §94 starts at 642 and is excluded from adopted scope. Main declared URL failed during this correction and is not claimed newly read. Epigraph full sentence §87 at 601. No whole Enquiry or complete Section X claimed read.
Source use: IDENTIFIED_HISTORICAL_EDITION_BOUNDED_USE
- The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of pure awareness experiences in meditators — Alex Gamma; Thomas Metzinger
Honest same-task actual Methods 192–234 except unrecovered 214 fragment; Results 235–241/274–359; selected Discussion 388–436; complete Limitations 431–454; selected Conclusion 455–458. Fresh exact full selfless-memory paragraph 451 and surrounding 448–454 read for this topic. Separate correction substantive 97–107 read; no dataset/supplement reanalysis.
Source use: CC_BY_NOTICE_ACTUALLY_READ
- The Dream Catcher experiment: blinded analyses failed to detect markers of dreaming consciousness in EEG spectral power — William Wong; Valdas Noreika; Levente Móró; Antti Revonsuo; Jennifer Windt; Katja Valli; Naotsugu Tsuchiya
Honest reuse of actual complete PDF pages 1–13, fresh separately recovered 4–6 and 10–13 included. Direct14–16 fetch timed out, not claimed read; remaining selected full primary OUP indexed Discussion paragraphs actually read: static/complexity definitions, recollection ambiguity, depth of NREM, Pros/cons and Future avenues, author rights. No raw data/supplements or graph-pixel analysis.
Source use: CC_BY_4_NOTICE_ACTUALLY_READ
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus — Teresa of Jesus; David Lewis, translator; Benedict Zimmerman, editor
Honest same-task reuse of actual title/edition 0–65, introduction correction 158–165, complete selected XXV §§1–6 2440–2453; freshly read complete §23 2499–2502 in W-11-N03 reused. Whole chapter/book/Spanish original not claimed read.
Source use: IDENTIFIED_HISTORICAL_TRANSLATION_BOUNDED_USE