‘Experience’, ordinary and philosophical: a corpus study

Abstract Common arguments for realism about phenomenal consciousness contend that this is a folk concept, with proponents expecting it to be lexicalised in ordinary language. In English, the word ‘experience’ typically regarded as best candidate. This predicts will used refer mental states and episodes, not only philosophical but also discourse. We conduct corpus study order assess claim understand actual use of non-academic, academic, non-academic discourse, uses knowledge or sources knowledge, public events, are found dominate. Uses episodes dominate philosophy mind (and even at large).