on observation and experience

During the Renaissance, the impulse towards observation trajected and projected new criteria based upon the notion of experience, from the Latin experientia, that signals a sense of proof through which some thing is acquired or learned.

The observation and experience, during this same period, became the basic elements of a new and compulsive rationality, that tried to apprehend quickly the laws of nature, in order to apply them to fundamental methodologies.

The notion of experience became a fundamental notion that oriented itself by criteria of true/objective knowledge, conditioned by two proposals: a notion of experience linked to the empirism, and a notion of experience linked to the critical rationalism.

Linked to the empirism, the experience is defined as individual living experience/action, accumulation of information and evidence of the immediate/qualitative observation.

Linked to the critical rationalism, experience is approached from criteria of quantitative/repeated qualitative, compared, transmissible with fundamentation and pluripersonal observation. The accumulation of information does not constitute evidence/certainty and the individual experience is considered only in terms of specific information.