sullesperienza

Sull'esperienza is the Italian prepositional phrase meaning "on experience" or "about experience." It is commonly used to introduce discussion of the concept of experience in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literary criticism. The form is often found in essays and analytic prose when the focus is experiential knowledge rather than a physical location.

Etymology and grammar: The expression is formed from su + l'esperienza, with l' as the elided article before a vowel. The noun esperienza, from Latin experientia, covers both events experienced and the knowledge gained from them. In practice, the standard written form is sull'esperienza; nonstandard variants such as sulla esperienza may occur in informal writing, but they do not reflect standard Italian orthography.

Usage: In discourse, sull'esperienza introduces analysis of how experience shapes perception, memory, and belief. It underpins discussions of lived experience (esperienza vissuta) and contrasts subjective experiential knowledge with objective or scientific knowledge. The phrase appears in academic prose, essays on epistemology and phenomenology, and in general literary commentary when the topic is the nature or role of experience.

See also: esperienza, esperienze, empirismo, epistemologia, fenomenologia, filosofia dell'esperienza.