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experience

experience In historical psychology, experience means conscious life as it unfolds in time, either as a particular episode someone undergoes or as the total course of mental events.

In historical psychology, experience means conscious life as it unfolds in time, either as a particular episode someone undergoes or as the total course of mental events. In a broader mental or psychic sense, it can also mean immediately given phenomena before reflection separates them into subject and object.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Experience” (Experience).
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