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I love etymology so much, and this passage gets at why. We are passing through time enveloped in a cloud of meanings.

Kant used the word ‘experience’, but, you remember, the word ‘experience’ in most languages—most Latin-derived languages, at least—has the same origin as the word ‘experiment.’ So, when Kant was talking about wxperience he was, in some sense, talking about scientific experiments.”