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→‎Wishful thinking: removed unrelated sentence referring to Principle of Credulity inadvertently included from Swinburne's argument from religious experience
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*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veridicality Wiktionary.org: "veridicality"]
 
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veridicality Wiktionary.org: "veridicality"]
 
*[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veridical Merriam-Webster.com "veridical"]
 
*[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veridical Merriam-Webster.com "veridical"]
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*[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/veridical Dictionary.com "veridical"]</ref> So sceptics suggest that perhaps the Principle of Credulity should be restricted in those cases where wishful thinking is, a priori, a very plausible explanation for why someone might have a certain experience, and that perhaps the tests and checking procedures for a religious experience should be more rigorous than in other cases. Thus the theory that religious experience is delusionary would also explain some of the vast differences which different religious people claim to have in their "experience" of God, namely, that people "experience" what they want to experience. This is the sceptic's logical fallacy of [[confirmation bias]] and [[cherry picking]]. If an atheist had an experience of God, the committed atheist could freely dismiss it afterward as an aberrent psychological experience having no objective external reality. This is the fallacy of [[Solipsism]].<ref>Compare  
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*[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/veridical Dictionary.com "veridical"]</ref> Thus the theory that religious experience is delusionary would also explain some of the vast differences which different religious people claim to have in their "experience" of God, namely, that people "experience" what they want to experience. This is the sceptic's logical fallacy of [[confirmation bias]] and [[cherry picking]]. If an atheist had an experience of God, the committed atheist could freely dismiss it afterward as an aberrent psychological experience having no objective external reality. This is the fallacy of [[Solipsism]].<ref>Compare  
 
*[http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/161-self-sealing-argument Logically Fallacious: Self-sealing argument]
 
*[http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/161-self-sealing-argument Logically Fallacious: Self-sealing argument]
 
*[http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~morourke/404-phil/Summer-99/Handouts/Philosophical/Self-Sealing-Arguments.htm University of Idaho. Self-Sealing Arguments. Chapter Ten, Philosophy 404, Summer 1999]</ref>
 
*[http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~morourke/404-phil/Summer-99/Handouts/Philosophical/Self-Sealing-Arguments.htm University of Idaho. Self-Sealing Arguments. Chapter Ten, Philosophy 404, Summer 1999]</ref>
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