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Full Idea
When I began to think about theory of knowledge, I found that none of the philosophers who emphasise 'experience' tells us what they mean by the word.
Gist of Idea
Empiricists seem unclear what they mean by 'experience'
Source
Bertrand Russell (My Philosophical Development [1959], Ch.11)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'My Philosophical Development' [Routledge 1993], p.97
A Reaction
A very significant comment about empiricism. Hume does not seem very clear about what an 'impression' is. Russell's problem has been dealt with intensively by modern empiricists, who discuss 'the given', and conceptualised perception.