The Confucian position on the importance of li in ethical cultivation is interesting and distinctive in its own right, and this is partly because Confucianism hews close to a kind of pre-theoretical experience of the moral life that might otherwise get obscured by a more purely theoretical approach to ethics.
The American pragmatist John Dewey (1859 1952) directly challenged the idea that knowledge is primarily theoretical; experience, he argued, consists of an interaction between a living being and his environment.
This knowledge is for a midwife suggested to consist of theoretical, experience based, and intuitive knowledge [ 49].
I am a very well qualified, experienced, and fairly well-travelled research scientist with a total of 20 years of practical and theoretical experience under my belt... and I have been unemployed since December 1996.
Prophethood is an undeniable part of the theoretical experience featured by the Ikhwân.
At the same time, the problematic is partly framed with the language of pre-theoretical experience in the form of dialogue and story, making the texts accessible to a much broader range of readers than is usually the case with philosophy texts.
Recall the practical focus and the closeness to pre-theoretical experience that are distinctive of indigenous Chinese philosophy.
Assessing the theoretical knowledge, practical experience of French intensivists, and their compliance with French Anesthesiology and Critical Care Society's difficult airway algorithms of the expert's SFAR conference of 2006.
The study and its intervention have several strengths: First, the intervention is carefully planned and tailored to the needs of children from substance-affected families, taking into account both theoretical foundations and experience of practitioners in the field.
This attention to pre-theoretical experience also leads to differences in format and discursive form: dialogues and stories are more suited for appealing to and evoking the kind of pre-theoretical experience that inspires parts of the text.
