Sentence examples similar to testing of experience from inspiring English sources

Cubism inexhaustibly puts that question to tests of experience.

"Ideas like pure good or pure evil do not stand the test of experience.

Second, there is a sense in which, despite everything said above, metaphysical theories are subject to the test of experience.

The belief did not survive the test of experience, but did earn the Boxer Rebellion an enduring place in popular memory.

At the suggestion that she should "see something of the world", we follow her social initiation in London and Bristol, and her consequent moral education through the tests of experience (such as how not to read a love letter).

Bopara believes Cook's own personal record is also untouched – he has over 100 Tests of experience and is the youngest batsman to reach 8,000 runs – and that the left-hander would grow from his troubled winter.

In so doing he is necessarily engaged in activities that rival those of the scientist, with the important difference that scientific theories can be brought to the test of experience, whereas metaphysical theories cannot.

The best form of government could be determined by the test of experience and that experience found the Lords wanting.

For conservatives, custom is immemorial but not thereby static; it is "constantly being subjected to the test of experience" (Pocock 1989: 213).

Without the acid test of experience of a common world, people are bound to come up with conflicting versions of these ideas (unless, perhaps, they emptily ape one another's words without real understanding).

Frankfurters' confidence in democratic majorities did not stand the test of experience.