Epistemically unique experiences
Summary
- You can only know this by experiencing it yourself, not by being told about it
Details
- Some experiences must be had by yourself, such as having a child
References
Quotes
- "Perhaps you think that you can know what it’s like to have a child, even though you’ve never had one, because you can read or listen to the testimony of what it was like for others,” writes the Yale University professor of philosophy L. A. Paul. “You are wrong.”
It is, she writes, “an epistemically unique” experience. Meaning: You don’t know shit"