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Experiential

adjective

Relating to or resulting from experience.

Derived from experience or the experience of existence. Synonym: existential. "Formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"

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"Experiential" Quotes from Famous Books

... case of animals from the kermes up to the bee, from the lancelet-fish to the dog, ape, elephant and horse; and he also treats of the so-called a priori knowledge which "arose only by long-enduring transmission, by inheritance of acquired adaptations of the brain, out of originally empiric or experiential knowledge a posteriori," (Vol. II, 345). But we look in vain in his works for a treatment of the question as to the origin of the Ego—of self-consciousness. Nowhere does he enter into the analysis of the psychological ideas; he only compares the psychical utterances of different creatures, ...

— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid

... whether, instead of being a principle, the 'oneness' affirmed may not merely be a name like 'substance' descriptive of the fact that certain specific and verifiable connections are found among the parts of the experiential flux.... We can easily conceive of things that shall have no connection whatever with each other. We may assume them to inhabit different times and spaces, as the dreams of different persons do even now. They may be so unlike and incommensurable, and so inert towards one another, as never to jostle ...

— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell

Words linked to "Experiential" : empiric, empirical, experience