Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.