We explain what experience is and how it relates to knowledge. Also, other uses of the term.
What is the experience?
Generally, when we speak of experience we refer to a type of knowledge that has to do with the procedural (that is, how to do something) rather than with the factual (that is, what is something), and that, therefore, is obtained through direct experience, instead of through through study and abstraction.
Thus, the knowledge obtained in this way is knowledge “a posteriori”, that is, that is obtained after having participated in the real experience, and not “a priori” like the knowledge we obtain through academic or theoretical study. In this, experience and preparation are distinguished, for example in the work and professional world.
In fact, the word experience comes from the Latin voice experience (translatable as "proof" or "essay"), linked to peritia ("To be experienced") where our word "expertise" comes from, and also with "experiment". Thus, it is common when saying that someone has a lot of experience to say that "he is very experienced."
However, experience is not only linked to practical and applicable knowledge, but also to experiencing the world (that is, experiencing the world). Over time we have the opportunity to go through situations that give us a empirical knowledge about life, about condition human, about emotions, and so on.
Thus, the whole of what has been lived by a person, the particular journey that he made and the mark that all this has left in his way of being, are also referred to as experiences (or life experience).
Other uses of the term experience
Depending on the field, the term experience can have much more specific meanings. To cite just a few examples, we have:
- School experience. In the educational field, the term experience is used to measure the student's transit through the educational institution, beyond what refers to the learning in itself of the subjects taught. The school experience has to do with areas of socialization and formation of community, as well as the experience of the school environment itself, as regards emotions, identity, etc.
- Experience of Username. Expression used in computing to refer to the behavior of a system facing those who use it. The "user experience" of a application To order food at home, for example, it includes how well the program behaves, how intuitive it is, what opinion its frequent users deserve, etc.
- Experience of client. In the field of management of companies and management business, this term is used to refer to the performance of the client during your visit to a local or to a headquarters of the business: how long did your process take, how well you were attended to, how satisfied you left the premises, etc.
- Experience in role-playing games. There is talk of experience in RPGs (from English Role Playing Game) to refer to the score the player receives as they progress through the game. plot planned of play, and that will later be used to modify your character at will. This score will be higher or lower depending on the type of choices you make and the challenges you face.