
What Exactly is
Experientialism?
Experientialism is the philosophical theory
of knowledge that sustains or acts as the
outlook on life of many diversified stubbornly
individualistic persons who prefer
to think analytically and decide
what to believe for themselves. Experientialism allows a person to assume
that people are entirely free to make decisions
and are thus responsible for what
they make of themselves, or to believe
the opposite - that all events
are the result of a catenulate sequence of
antecedal impingements of both human
and non-human causal objects. Thus every person in the world has a unique
accumulation of knowledge, of skills or disadavantages
that result from their experience of
events or activities initiated by a network
of past events. Some experiencers are
free from the inherited mystical
baggage of Platonic and Aristotelian folk
philosophy, and the weirdo cultic
grammatico-ontological contortions of transcendentalism - others are not.
Experientialism rejects reificist
sects and cults such as those epitomised
by the throwback ontological aberration
which is Existentialism. Of course like any other "...ism" experientialism does not actually exist - only experiencers themselves exist.
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