Experience

Experience gives knowledge of particulars; art and science rise above it to grasp universals and causes.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, yet the agent intellect actively abstracts universals from sense experience.

Experience, not systems, is the best teacher; self-observation reveals more than any book.

The senses deceive; only clear and distinct ideas of the intellect are reliable, and some ideas are innate.

No innate ideas; the mind is a blank slate, and all knowledge comes from experience through sensation and reflection.

Experience is limited to impressions and ideas; causation is custom, not reason, and we cannot go beyond experience to know necessary connections.

All knowledge begins with experience, but it does not all arise from experience; the mind contributes the forms that make experience possible.

Experience is the dialectical process by which consciousness, through contradiction and negation, comes to know itself in successive shapes.

Radical empiricism: experience is the fundamental stuff of reality, a continuous stream prior to any division into subject and object.