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(i) "metaphysics may be described as the study which evaluates a priori statements about existence";

(ii) "a priori statements about existence" are those which contradict no conceivable observations;

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(v) This is possible because "we can in principle conceive \-\- though not imagine \-\- experiences \[and thus observations\] radically different from any we could possibly have."

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2. The question is whether this view of the scope of experience as including God's experiences – -- though, significantly, only so far as they themselves are conceivable from the standpoint of human experience is a sufficiently restrictive understanding of experience to qualify as "naturalistic." My impression is that the answer is affirmative.

3. N.B. The nonexistence of God (properly defined) is utterly unverifiable. For no conceivable human experience could verify it – -- it being part of the meaning of God's existence that it must be compatible with all experiences, human or otherwise; nor could any conceivable divine experience verify it.