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Apparitional experience

In parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous experience characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception.

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related to history · 13
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related to Representationalism · 7
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related to Direct realism · 6
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related to Schizotypy · 6
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related to Psychological theories of perception · 5
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Apparitional experience → anomalous experience characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception.In…

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Apparitional experienceis aanomalous experience characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception.In…0.90text
memoryinstance ofstress the importance of central factors0.80text
expectation in determining the phenomenological content of perceptioninstance ofstress the importance of central factors0.80text
sensory deprivationinstance ofother than that posed already by the more widely discussed hallucinations reported by people in a state of psychosis or under other abnormal conditions0.80text
Apparitional experiencerelated to Direct realismApparitional0.60section
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Apparitional experiencerelated to Direct realismGibson0.60section
Apparitional experiencerelated to Direct realismHallucinatory0.60section
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Apparitional experiencerelated to historyAttempts0.60section
Apparitional experiencerelated to historyEdmund Gurney0.60section

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