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experience


Subject Philosophy

People Hobbes, Thomas

Key-Topics experience

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631192626.2005.x


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Experience is the memory of many things, according to Hobbes's standard account ( L 2.4; EL 1.4.6; DCo 25.8). In The Answer to the Preface Before Gondibert , Hobbes treats experience in a more sophisticated way: “Time and education beget experience; experience begets memory; memory begets judgement and fancy; judgement begets the strength and structure, and fancy begets the ornaments, of a poem” ( EW 4:449). The link between memory (experience) and poetry explains why the ancients made Memory the mother of the Muses. ( See also sensation .) ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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