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Full Idea
The real world is the world of sensible experience, and it is part of the process of sensible experience to locate its facts in the world of ideas.
Gist of Idea
The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], III)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.146
A Reaction
This is the neatest demolition of the sharp dividing line between empiricism and rationalism that I have ever encountered.
Related Idea
Idea 14789 Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce]