第55页 EXPERIENCE: THE PHOLOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

We can now see the upshot of Dewey's discussion of the three concepts of experience. Insofar as the Greeds emphasized the social character of experience, the ways in which it is a medium for the funded information and skills of the past that are transmitted by custom and habit, they have made an important contribution to our understanding of experience. And insofar as the British empiricists have emphasized the ways in which experience must be the touchstone for evaluating social institutions and testing knowledge claims, we can still learn from them.