It is often urged that, as a matter of immediate experience, the sensible flux is devoid of divisions, and is falsified by the dissections of the intellect.
Now I have no wish to argue that this view is contrary to immediate experience: I wish only to maintain that it is essentially incapable of being proved by immediate experience.
Immediate experience provides us with two time-relations among events: they may be simultaneous, or one may be earlier and the other later.
The latter is all held materially within the limits defined by the former; but if immediate experience be the seat of the moral world, the moral world is the only interesting possession of immediate experience.
We pointed out in the second chapter that all knowledge rests ultimately on immediate experience.
To question the truth of immediate experience is to question its existence; it is to ask if it is what it is, and this is plainly unmeaning.
All these are opinions, and may be false, and our belief that any one of them is true does not depend on immediate experience, but on reasons.
But it is useless to seek this basis in life as we immediately experience it, whether in thought, in activity, or in anything else; for in the whole life of immediate experience there is nothing that is free from change.
The fact that is affirmed should become an immediate experience of one's own and should advance life rather than knowledge.
The matter is one of shifting the centre of life from the position in which it is in immediate experience.
For it is at least one of the interests of poetry to cultivate and satisfy a sense for the universal; to obtain an immediate experience or appreciation that shall have the vividness without the particularism of ordinary perception.
An experimentally verifiable system must contain space-time variables, for which can be substituted the here and now of the experimenter's immediate experience.
Therefore if he is to be philosophical in intelligence, and yet essentially a poet, he must find his universal truth in immediate experience.
In connection with the discussion which follows see Bradley "On Our Knowledge of Immediate Experience," in Essays on Truth and Reality, Chapter VI.
He seems to have held that truth is given in immediate experience.
Primary awareness or perception of reality not yet thought about; spontaneous experience; immediate experience or perception.
The intuitive grasp is an insight into reality that bears the certainty of immediate experience.
It is a description of the sensation of literary composition, of the immediate experience of a writer as words and images rise into his mind.
Their practical tasks held them to immediate experience.
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