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(2007) Ambiguity and sexuality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Starting with experience

William Wilkerson

pp. 13-30

My account of sexual identity as emerging fusion begins with experience. Experience is both a very important and a very general term in philosophy that names our subjective living through of some event. Many think that all or most of our knowledge of the world originates in experience. This might seem so obvious as to require no proof; if it is raining outside I know this because I can go outside and get wet. I do not learn such a fact from any source more spectacular than my own living through an experience of rain. Similarly, if I am homosexual, it will be thought that I know this because I can experience my own same-sex desire.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-05173-8_2

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Wilkerson, (2007). Starting with experience, in Ambiguity and sexuality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 13-30.

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