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Example sentences for "direct experience"

  • Cosmology, utilizing not only the data of direct experience, but also the conclusions established by the analytic study of these data in the physical sciences, explores the origin, nature, and destiny of the material universe.

  • Of primitive man we have no direct experience; no savage people now existing is a faithful representative of him, either physically or mentally.

  • In answering this question I need not dwell upon such obvious means of information as direct experience, or records of moral maxims and sentiments found in proverbs, literary and philosophical works, and religious codes.

  • It thus appears to be by the Method of Difference alone that we can ever, in the way of direct experience, arrive with certainty at causes.

  • It stands in contrast with an immediate, direct experience, something in which we take part vitally and at first hand, instead of through the intervention of representative media.

  • Whenever, not by reasoning but by direct experience, knowledge has been enlarged, or when a revelation has come to the human race through the agency of higher powers, it is not the wise but the simple who are first to receive it.

  • It is independent of study and discovery; it is given us by direct experience, and for ordinary life it suffices.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better idea; could only; direct answer; direct assault; direct contradiction; direct course; direct descendant; direct evidence; direct experience; direct foreign; direct interest; direct legislation; direct object; direct popular; direct reference; direct statement; direct taxation; directing them; direction from; directly after; directly contrary; directly opposed; directly opposite; group marriage; iron bridge; keep cool