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Full Idea
Experience is the knowledge of particulars and skill that of universals.
Clarification
'Skill' is the Greek word 'techné'
Gist of Idea
Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.5