Foundation · Debate route
Does access to experience establish totality?
All evidence comes through experience. Why does that mean everything real is experiential?
← All routesThe claim at issue
What EE says
EE starts with the occurrence of experience and advances a stronger claim: a proposed non-experiential exception cannot be given content or warrant without borrowing experiential terms. The stronger step needs argument; it is not identical to the starting datum.
EE's reply
Where the objection fails
The challenge in Experientia Est is to specify one actual thing outside experience and say what makes it non-experiential. Closed for Business separately asks whether any proposed outside is really outside a genuine totality. Neither argument is just the observation that we access things through experience.
EE's answer
What follows
EE does not infer ontology from mere access. Its positive-content test asks what the non-experiential remainder actually is. Every proposed attribute is supplied in experiential terms; after those are removed, only the word ‘independent’ remains. A bare possibility with no differentiating content or warrant supplies no counterexample to experiential totality.