The Content of Experience

Abstract

I suppose we must ask the question: “What or what kinds of things do we experience ?” in the hope that the answer will throw some light on the question: “What kinds of experience are trustworthy?” The original question which looks strictly ontological, must be primarily epistemological unless it is supposed that the answer “we experience what we experience” is taken to be one worth getting. Presumably, one describes experiences in terms of experiences and this is not very helpful unless the investigation is designed to tell us whether what we are now experiencing is, or is not, what we experienced at some time or times in the past.