someone who...because of the many experiences he has had and the knowledge he has drawn from them, is particularly well-equipped to have new experiences and to learn from them.
Experience has its proper fulfilment not in definitive knowledge but in the openness to experience that is made possible by experience itself (Gadamer, 1989, p. 355).
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