Part 4062

<blockquote>Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from <b>experience</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Experience</b> may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is <b>observation</b>; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is <b>experiment</b>. <i>Sir J. Herschel.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exrerience</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*re"ri*ence</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Experienced</er> <tt>(-<it>e</it>nst)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Experiencing</er> <tt>(-<it>e</it>n-s?ng)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; <as>as, to <ex>experience</ex> pain or pleasure; to <ex>experience</ex> poverty; to <ex>experience</ex> a change of views.</as></def>

<blockquote>The partial failure and disappointment which he had <b>experienced</b> in India. <i>Thirwall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To exercise; to train by practice.</def>

<blockquote>The youthful sailors thus with early care

<blockquote>Their arms <b>experience</b>, and for sea prepare. <i>Harte.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To experience religion</col> <fld>(Theol.)</fld>, <cd>to become a convert to the diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of religions truth.</cd></cs>

<h1>Experienced</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe"ri*enced</hw> <tt>(-<it>e</it>nst)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <def>Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; <as>as, an <ex>experienced</ex> physician, workman, soldier; <ex>an experienced</ex> eye</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The ablest and most <b>experienced</b> statesmen. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Experiencer</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe"ri*en*cer</hw> <tt>(-<it>e</it>n-s?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who experiences.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An experimenter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir. K. Gigby.</i>

<h1>Experient</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe"ri*ent</hw> <tt>(-<it>e</it>nt)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Experienced.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The prince now ripe and full <b>experient</b>. <i>Beau & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Experiential</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe`ri*en"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<blockquote>It is called empirical or <b>experiential</b> . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. <i>Sir. W. Hamiltion.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<i>DR. H. More.</i>

<h1>Experientialism</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to <i>intuitionists</i>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Experientialism</b> is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. <i>G. C. Robertson.</i></blockquote>