“Experience to be experience must be reality; truth to be true must be true of reality. Experience, truth and reality are inseparable.”

—  Michael Oakeshott

Chap. 2 : Experience and Its Modes
Experience and Its Modes (1933)

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British philosopher 1901–1990

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