De l’expérience
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De l’expérience is the original French title of Michel de Montaigne’s influential philosophical essay “Of Experience,” in which he reflects on human nature, knowledge, and everyday life through personal observation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De l’expérience canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10642664 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De l’expérience Context triple: [Of Experience, originalTitle, De l’expérience]
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A.
Au moment voulu
"Au moment voulu" is a philosophical-literary work by French writer and theorist Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of time, absence, and the limits of language.
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B.
Au bout de mes rêves
"Au bout de mes rêves" is a popular French pop song by singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, known for its uplifting melody and inspirational lyrics about pursuing one's dreams.
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C.
À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
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D.
Le Monde cassé
Le Monde cassé is a philosophical drama by French existentialist thinker Gabriel Marcel that explores themes of brokenness, human relationships, and spiritual transcendence.
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E.
Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De l’expérience Target entity description: De l’expérience is the original French title of Michel de Montaigne’s influential philosophical essay “Of Experience,” in which he reflects on human nature, knowledge, and everyday life through personal observation.
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A.
Au moment voulu
"Au moment voulu" is a philosophical-literary work by French writer and theorist Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of time, absence, and the limits of language.
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B.
Au bout de mes rêves
"Au bout de mes rêves" is a popular French pop song by singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, known for its uplifting melody and inspirational lyrics about pursuing one's dreams.
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C.
À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
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D.
Le Monde cassé
Le Monde cassé is a philosophical drama by French existentialist thinker Gabriel Marcel that explores themes of brokenness, human relationships, and spiritual transcendence.
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E.
Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | philosophical essay ⓘ |
| author | Michel de Montaigne ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
contingency of human life
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limits of human knowledge ⓘ priority of lived experience over theory ⓘ self-examination ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
moral philosophy
ⓘ
personal essay ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialVoice | autobiographical ⓘ |
| hasForm |
first-person essay
ⓘ
prose ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late 16th century France ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern essay tradition
ⓘ
modern philosophy of experience ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Epicureanism
ⓘ
Skepticism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ classical authors ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | French Renaissance ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
embodiment
ⓘ
everyday life ⓘ experience ⓘ human nature ⓘ knowledge ⓘ practical wisdom ⓘ self-knowledge ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of abstract knowledge
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informal conversational style ⓘ reflection on bodily experience ⓘ use of personal observation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Book III of the Essais
ⓘ
linked to:
Montaigne’s Essais
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| partOfWork | Essais ⓘ |
| philosophicalFocus |
ethics of everyday life
ⓘ
practical judgment ⓘ relation between body and mind ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Renaissance humanism
ⓘ
skepticism ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Of Experience ⓘ |
| workIn |
Essais, Book III
ⓘ
linked to:
Essais
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| workTitleInEnglish |
Of Experience
ⓘ
linked to:
“Of Experience”
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| workTitleInFrench | De l’expérience ⓘ |
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