\u201cRather the\u00a0experienced\u00a0person proves to be, on the contrary, someone who is radically undogmatic; who, because of the many\u00a0 \u201cThe dialectic of experience has its own fulfillment not in\u00a0definitive\u00a0knowledge, but in that openness to\u00a0experience\u00a0which is encouraged by\u00a0experience\u00a0itself.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n This growth in\u00a0experience\u00a0is not primarily an increase in knowledge of this or that situation, but rather an escape from what had deceived us and held us captive. <\/em><\/p>\n It is learning by suffering, suffering the process of undeception, which is usually painful.<\/em><\/p>\n Andrew Louth, Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology<\/a><\/em>![\"Louth\"](\"https:\/\/thebiblefornormalpeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Louth-1.jpg\")
<\/a>As Gadamer puts it, \u201cThe\u00a0truth\u00a0of experience always contains an orientation towards new\u00a0experiences. \u00a0The perfection of this\u00a0experience, the perfect form of what we call \u2018experienced,\u2019 does not consist in the fact that someone already knows\u00a0everything\u00a0and knows better than anyone else. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>experiences\u00a0he has had and\u00a0the\u00a0knowledge\u00a0he has drawn from them is particularly equipped to have new\u00a0experiences\u00a0and to learn from them. <\/em><\/p>\n