The experience is partly derived from observation and the company of those who are already wise

Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. Knowledge is defined ( Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience or education the theoretical or practical understanding Observation is either an activity of a living being (such as a Human) which senses and assimilates the Knowledge of a Phenomenon, or the recording of data The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment. In scientific inquiry an experiment ( Latin: Ex- periri, "to try out" is a method of investigating particular types of research questions or

The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge. In the context of industrial property now generally viewed as intellectual property (IP know-how (or knowhow as it is sometimes written is a component in the transfer Procedural knowledge is the knowledge exercised in the performance of some task Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the species of Knowledge that is by its very nature expressed in Philosophers dub knowledge based on experience "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge". "A priori" redirects here For other uses see A priori. The interrogation of experience also has a long tradition in continental philosophy. The German term Erfahrung, which is translated as 'experience' into English has, however, a slightly different implication, given that it is associated with the coherency of life's experiences.

A person with considerable experience in a certain field can gain a reputation as an expert. An "expert" ( is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or Skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly justly

Certain religious traditions, such as in certain types of Buddhism, Surat Shabd Yoga and mysticism) and educational paradigms with, for example, the conditioning of boot camps, stress the experimental nature of human epistemology. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem acc of traditio which means "a giving up delivering up surrendering" and is used in a number of Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of spiritual practice that is followed in the Sant Mat and many other related spiritual traditions Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity The word paradigm ( Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigmacomposite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show" as a whole -roughly- meaning "example" Epistemology (from Greek επιστήμη - episteme, "knowledge" + λόγος, " Logos " or theory of knowledge This stands in contrast to traditions of dogma, logic or reasoning. About CONTRAST CONTRAST is a Multidisciplinary alliance bringing together key skills and expertise to generate new knowledge on biological environmental Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas, Greek, plural) is the established Belief or Logic is the study of the principles of valid demonstration and Inference. Reason involves the ability to think understand and draw Conclusions in an Abstract way as in Human thinking Activities such as tourism, extreme sports and recreational drug use also tend to stress the importance of experience. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent Recreational drug use is the use of Psychoactive drugs for Recreational purposes rather than for work, medical or spiritual purposes

Types of experience

The word "experience" may refer, somewhat ambiguously, both to mentally unprocessed immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them. MIND ( Moving In New Directions) (est 1975 is an alternative education high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Wisdom is a concept of personal gaining of Knowledge, Understanding, Experience, discretion and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity

Most wisdom-experience accumulates over a period of time, though one can also experience (and gain general wisdom-experience from) a single specific momentary event. For other uses see Time (disambiguation Time is a component of a measuring system used to sequence events to compare the durations of

One may also differentiate between physical, mental, emotional and spiritual experience(s). With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual MIND ( Moving In New Directions) (est 1975 is an alternative education high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings thoughts and behaviours Spirituality, in a narrow sense concerns itself with matters of the Spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and Faith, a transcendent reality

Immediacy of experience

Someone able to recount an event they witnessed or took part in has "firsthand experience". Firsthand experience of the "you had to be there" variety can seem especially valuable and privileged, but it often remains potentially subject to errors in sense-perception and in personal interpretation. Senses are the physiological methods of Perception. The senses and their operation classification and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields In Psychology and the Cognitive sciences perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory Information. In Logic an interpretation gives meaning to an artificial or Formal language or to a sentence of such a language by assigning a denotation (extension

Second-hand experience can offer richer resources: recorded and/or summarised from firsthand observers or experiencers or from instruments and potentially expressing multiple points of view. Perspective in theory of Cognition is the choice of a context or a Reference (or the result of this choice from which to Sense, Categorize .

Third-hand experience, based on indirect and possibly unreliable rumour or hearsay, can potentially stray perilously close to blind honouring of authority. A rumour or rumor (see spelling differences) is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and Not to be confused with Heresy. Hearsay is a legal term referring to the use of out of court statements as evidence In Politics, authority ( Latin Auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to Potestas and Imperium

The Subjective Experience

A state of individual subjectivity, perception on which one creates their own state of reality; a reality that is based on one’s interaction with their environment. In Psychology and the Cognitive sciences perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory Information. Reality, in everyday usage means "the state of things as they actually exist" Interaction is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an Effect upon one another The subjective experience is based on one’s individual ability to process data, store and internalize it, for example: our senses collect data, which is then processed according to biological programming (genetics), neurological network relationships and other variables such as relativity etc, all of which affect our individual experience of any given situation in such a way as to render it subjective. As commonly used, individual refers to a Person or to any specific object in a collection Debt AIDS Trade in Africa (or DATA) is a Multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2 's Internalization has different definitions depending on the field that the term is used in

Games

Role-playing games treat experience (and its acquisition) as an important and valuable commodity. A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. See experience point.

Writing

The American author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay entitled "Experience" (published in 1844), in which he asks readers to disregard emotions that could alienate them from the divine; it provides a somewhat pessimistic representation of the Transcendentalism associated with Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 &ndash April 27 1882 was an American essayist philosopher poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings thoughts and behaviours Pessimism, from the Latin pessimus (worst is the decision to evaluate perceive and view life in a generally negative light Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy that emerged in New England in the

Art

The art group Monochrom organized a series of happenings that ironically take up the implications of this term: Experience the Experience

See also

• Experiential education
• Perception
• Philosophy of perception

External links

• The Experience Project