Direct experience

Direct experience or immediate experience generally denotes experience gained through immediate sense perception. Many philosophical systems hold that knowledge or skills gained through direct experience cannot be fully put into words.

While easily described, the direct experience of kissing the Blarney Stone is less easily obtained

See also

• Abhijñā
• Firsthand learning

References

• Henri Bergson (2012). Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-11971-7.