Something important here, I think. The position of the Vedanta does indeed seem to be that the *experience* of PC, however one chooses to evaluate it, provides personal confirmation of a ground of being, or words to that effect. But this must surely always remain what William James called an over-belief. The distinctive contribution of the Buddha seems to have been to discount all such metaphysical claims (see Malcolm Carrithers, The Buddha -Modern Masters series - for a good account of this.)
I read somewhere (can't remember where) that people under hypnosis who were told to visualize a square circle became convinced that they had done so and waved their hands about trying to depict what they saw. Is PC perhaps an *impossible object* of this kind?
Anthony Campbell
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