Experientialism

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The doctrine that all our knowledge has its origin in experience, and must submit to the test of experience.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
  • Word Usage
    "Specifically, what's foundationally important for Humean Empiricism is not anti-Nativism, but what we might call experientialism, the thesis that all our ideas are representations of particular sensory states."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning