Direct experience

{{Short description|Concept in epistemology}}

[[file:Blarney stone.png|alt=one person helps another kiss the Blarney Stone|thumb|While easily described, the direct experience of kissing the [[Blarney Stone]] is less easily obtained]]

'''Direct experience''' or '''immediate experience''' generally denotes experience gained through immediate [[sense]] [[perception]]. Many [[philosophy|philosophical systems]] hold that knowledge or skills gained through direct experience cannot be fully put into words.

== See also ==

* [[Abhijñā]] * [[Firsthand learning]]

== References ==

* {{cite book|author=Henri Bergson|author-link=Henri Bergson|title=Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzrCAgAAQBAJ|date=2012|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-11971-7}}{{epistemology-stub}}

[[category:concepts in epistemology]] [[category:philosophy of perception]]