The principle of charity relates to what people mean by what they say. Unmitigated experience might be empirically nonexistent under one interpretation of unmediated but not under another. If someone claims to have had unmediated experience , that is evidence relating to what they mean by their words.
Unmitigated [sic] experience might be empirically nonexistent under one interpretation of unmediated but not under another.
I see. What more charitable interpretation of "unmediated experience" would you prefer?
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