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experientable

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Etymology

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experient- (stem of experience, experiential) +‎ -able

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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experientable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being experienced.
    • 1968, Catholic Anthropological Conference, Anthropological Quarterly, Catholic University of America Press, page 36:
      …Carnap which focuses upon how the sensation is given and upon sense-data, the most basic observable experientable unit and (2) the concept of the given of the Ordinary Language School and especially L. Wittgenstein and P. Winch who focus more upon…
    • 1994: Howard Robinson, Perception, page 126 (Routledge; →ISBN, 978‒0415033640)
      This is a travesty of the idea of a quale. If the term qualia has any use at all it is to designate experientable differences; significantly different qualia can, in principle, be recognised as different. The point is not purely verbal.
    • 2000: “leonardo dasso”, alt.talk.creationism: What % of evolutionists here are not athiests?[sic], the 2nd day of October at 8 o’clock a.m.
      Once you start refering[sic] to observable, experientable entities, you are in the realm of the empirical, and therefore, these entities can become the subject of scientific research.