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sense experience

sense experience Sense experience is immediate experience gained through the senses.

Sense experience is immediate experience gained through the senses. In this historical context, it is treated as the direct basis from which knowledge or truth is sought in empiricist thought.

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