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experiential, a.|ɛkˌspɪərɪˈɛnʃəl|
[f. L. experienti-a (see experience n.) + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to experience or observation; based on or derived from experience. experiential philosophy: the system which regards all knowledge as derived from experience. So experiential philosopher, experiential doctrine, etc.
1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. App. p. xi, The understanding or experiential faculty, unirradiated by the reason..has no appropriate object but the material world. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) I. iii. 54 It is called empirical or experiential..because it is given us by experience or observation. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 67 The same method..presided over the birth of the experiential psychology. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §58 The experiential acquirement of knowledge. 1882–3H. D. Calderwood in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1224. The sceptical assault of Hume on the experiential philosophy.
Hence experiˈentialism, the theory or doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. experiˈentialist, a supporter of, or a believer in, experientialism. experiˈentially adv., with regard to experience, in experience.
1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 37 As Mr. Mill has used the adjective ‘Experiential’..perhaps the substantive Experientialism..might be brought into use. 1870Contemp. Rev. XIV. 286 The Experientialists are always saying to the Axiomatic moralists, ‘You do not understand—we believe in Conscience just as much as you do.’ 1876Fox Bourne Locke II. x. 114 Locke's piety..did not make him less of an experientialist or utilitarian.
1647H. More Song of Soul i. Introd. 12/1 This trinall effect or spirituall influence on the Soul is experientially true. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 124 The Reflex Act is experientially known by the very Act it self. 1887Mrs. C. Reade Maid o' the Mill I. xvii. 246 He is, socially, as well as experientially, vastly her superior. |