The experienced object is more certain than the scientific information about it

Evidence

If I treated all these as purely ‘subjective’ elements to be stripped away in order to be ‘objective’ about my coffee, I would find there was nothing left of my cup of coffee as a phenomenon — that is, as it appears in the experience of me, the coffee-drinker. This experiential cup of coffee is the one I can speak about with certainty, while everything else to do with the bean-growing and the chemistry is hearsay. It may all be interesting hearsay, but it’s irrelevant to a phenomenologist. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 141

Categorization

• XREF: Directly reverses scientific realism’s priority — scientific facts called ‘hearsay’ — connecting to the existentialist challenge to objectivist epistemologies familiar from later continental thought. — connects to: Science can penetrate everything but what it penetrates is not being; The law of value is more evident to experience than positivistic science admits — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 932; The perceived object is irreducible to the consciousness that perceives it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 142 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The law of value is more evident to experience than positivistic science admits #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 932
• The perceived object is irreducible to the consciousness that perceives it. #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 142
• Experience arrives pre-charged with meaning rather than as raw sense data #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 490