experience

Knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it

Instance of: quality
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Subclass of: knowledge
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Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the relation between them and the property "yellow". Unreal items may be included as well, which happens when experiencing hallucinations or dreams. When understood in a more restricted sense, only sensory consciousness counts as experience. In this sense, experience is usually identified with perception and contrasted with other types of conscious events, like thinking or imagining. In a slightly different sense, experience refers not to the conscious events themselves but to the practical knowledge and familiarity they produce. Hence, it is important that direct perceptual contact with the external world is the source of knowledge. So an experienced hiker is someone who has actually lived through many hikes, not someone who merely read many books about hiking. This is associated both with recurrent past acquaintance and the abilities learned through them.

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Partially coincident with: understanding
knowledge
Cause: hands-on learning
Different from: Experience criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: experience
Esperientzia criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: esperientzia
Opposite of: inexperience

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