experience-hypothesis

Updated: May 28, 2025

But long before these were written, his teacher, the greatest of all psychologists, had clearly proven that the experience-hypothesis was utterly inadequate to account for many classes of psychological phenomena. "If possible," observes Herbert Spencer, "it is even more at fault in respect to the emotions than to the cognitions.

Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro : Japanese Inner Life Hints