Lived experience

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Lived experience is personal knowledge of the world acquired through direct involvement in everyday events, rather than through representations constructed by other people. The term originates in the concept of lived experience (German: Erlebnis, lit. 'experience') in the philosophies of Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl and Hans-Georg Gadamer. This concept is derived from the distinction between the German words Erlebnis and Erfahrung, both of which are typically translated into English as 'experience'. Duden defines Erfahrung as "knowledge gained through practical work or repetition", and Erlebnis as "an event experienced as striking in some way". In post-Romantic German philosophy, Erlebnis took on a connotation of non-conceptualized or ineffable experience, akin to qualia in the philosophy of mind. In phenomenology, lived experience (German: Erlebnis) refers to situated, immediate activities in everyday experience that are pre-reflexively taken for granted as reality rather than as perceived...

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