Wuensch, Karl L wrote:
I am no Latin scholar, but each of several Latin-English dictionaries I
have consulted defines "experiri" as experience in the sense of trying
something as a test or an attempt to "prove" something (not that I
like the use of the word "prove" when referring to empirical tests.)
By gosh, you're absolutely right. I take it back. I do not find an
"experiri" but "experientia," which means, according to Cassell's
(classical) Latin Dictionary, "trial, testing" or (later in the def'n)
"knowledge by experience." Lewis & Short (which is a dictionary of
Medieval Latin) gives approximately the same definition.
Regards,
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
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