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    When mere experience is deemed paramount over knowledge acquisition (for example, academic study, peer exchange, reading), there is no need for books. Yet, what is that experience of? What is it about? Each event is experienced as __________, and the blank must be filled by something. To exalt experience to the place of pre-eminence is to eliminate the possibility of rational disagreement, thus creating a world in which it can be in no one's interest to live.

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    When mere experience is deemed paramount over knowledge acquisition (for example, academic study, peer exchange, reading), there is no need for books. Yet, what is that experience of? What is it about? Each event is experienced as __________, and the blank must be filled by something. To exalt experience to the place of pre-eminence is to eliminate the possibility of rational disagreement, thus creating a world in which it can be in no one's interest to live.

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    Book Burning

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    Christopher Ullman
    When mere experience is deemed paramount over knowledge acquisition (for example, academic study, peer exchange, reading), there is no need for books. Yet, what is that experience of? What is it about? Each event is experienced as __________, and the blank must be filled by something. To exalt experience to the place of pre-eminence is to eliminate the possibility of rational disagreement, thus creating a world in which it can be in no one's interest to live.

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    One consequence of valuing mere experience over learning:

    The uninterpreted experience is of no value.

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