"If I could go back in time and trade in certain experiences I've had for the brain cells presumably burned up," he remarked, "it would be a tough decision".
In the same sort of way, Kohák is taking the notion of divine presence, when it functions in religiously resonant ways, to be rooted in certain experiences of the world, so that someone who lacks those experiences will not have the same idea of divine presence.
For the service users with schizophrenia, there may have been some response bias because interviews were conducted in the Mental Health Society offices or in the clinic and service users may not have felt comfortable to disclose certain experiences in these settings.
According to Shoemaker 2002, appearance properties include dispositions to produce certain experiences in certain perceivers (a suggestion that was considered but rejected in Shoemaker 1994a, b).
"You sometimes have to get in a mindset of certain experiences.
The tensions embodied in this moment — between fiction and autobiography, the expectations of the observer and the experience of the witness, not to mention the value of certain experiences in the global literary marketplace — practically seep through the pages of this collection.
Certain experiences in this world, like communal worship or spousal love, might afford a foretaste of happiness, but it was only in the next world that it could fully be known, and it was always envisioned as a profoundly social emotion.
It's about replicating certain experiences in the place where his customers are already doing business: "Our customers want a Dropbox for the enterprise, and they want it integrated into the [Salesforce] platform," he said.
There are certain experiences in life that you just don't want to be conscious for.
Exploring your fear will also point out to certain experiences in the past which you went through that are causing you to always be afraid.
Now, it might be that a focus on any kind of purpose is too narrow for ruling out the logical possibility that meaning could inhere in certain actions, experiences, states, or relationships that have not been adopted as ends and willed and that perhaps even could not be, e.g., being an immortal offshoot of an unconscious, spiritual force that grounds the physical universe, as in Hinduism.
