Essay On Direct Experience

As a kid I had learned to converse in the English language by observing my parents. I would do so by connecting the words spoken by my parents to the actions that followed the words spoken. I had also learned how to operate certain devices by observing the way my parents had operated those devices, for instance the microwave. Early man had learned how to start a fire through experimentation. Early man had started a spark after banging two rocks together for some time, they realised that the fire kept warm and thus stored the knowledge of how to start a fire.

The key words in the statement include knowledge, passive observation, and active experimentation. Knowledge is usually defined as an information that is gained through education or through

This type of knowledge is a result of surviving in the world, having emotions, sensations, thinking and learning new languages. This type of knowledge has two different types of components. One is the component of direct experience and the other component is reflection. The component of experience involves our direct encounters with the outside world. The outside world includes all natural components and all man made or artificial components. In this particular type of component we gain knowledge through various experiences including failures, so when one looks at failures from this point of view, they will tend to cherish their failures. The component of direct experience is the most basic form of personal knowledge, because it involves personal experiences which not everyone has faced. But in order to obtain a more detailed amount of knowledge from an experience on must be able to reflect upon that particular experience. This where the factor of reflection kicks in. For example, when we see a person being mistreated on the basis of their religion and we do not speak up for that person, after a particular amount of time we would reflect upon that incident thinking that “Why did I not speak up for that person?” Or “What would I do I someone would have treated me in that way? “. After pondering upon these questions, we would have a certain lesson to learn and conclude upon how to react the next we see a similar incident