The use of the phrase "pure experience" in both essays points to a lingering influence of idealism.
If we come from pure experience to knowledge by a purposive transformation, we must acknowledge the reality of will in ourselves, or rather, we must find ourselves as will in the midst of pure experience before we reach any knowledge.
And if this doubleness does not hold for the immediate reality of pure experience, it cannot enter through that reshaping and reconstructing and connecting and interpreting of pure experiencewhich we call our knowledge.
Philosophy as Thought concerning the World according to the Principle of Least Work, 1876; Critique of Pure Experience, vol.
But to 'fulfil a function' in a world of pure experience can be conceived and defined in only one possible way.
A World of Pure Experience' in the Journal of Philosophy, vol.
This is "the principle of pure experience" as "a methodical postulate.
But, as Heinrich Dumoulin observed, "Zen has never existed in pure experience only, without admixture of theoretical teachings or methodical practice, as it has sometimes been idealized.
For six years he studied meditation with Bodhidharma, gradually retreating from the life of the scholar as he turned away from intellectualism and toward pure experience.
Later teachers seem to have given Lin-chi's categories more importance than he actually intended, for he professed to loathe systems and was in fact much more concerned with enlightenment as pure experience.
Pure experience in this state is but another name for feeling or sensation.
I 'Pure experience' is the name which I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
What I want to get at, and let no interruptions interfere, is (at last) my system of tychistic and pluralistic philosophy of pure experience.
I am convinced that a philosophy of pure experience, such as I conceive yours to be, can be made to work, and will reconcile many of the old inveterate oppositions of the schools.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pure experience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
