You can take a telescope and see things that the naked eye cannot see. A microscope can also see things that the unaided eye cannot see
Ok but you're experiencing the magnification of light through a telescope. That's still inside of experience. Are you telling me you did not experience the sensation of light coming through a telescope that magnified the light of another planet?
You experience the light and magnification but the object still lies outside of your experience. You are reasonably sure it is there though.
I don't think we have the same definition of experience then.
Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.
The statement you made is an a posteriori statement, meaning knowledge gained after the experience.
To even operate the telescope you employed procedural knowledge, which is the knowledge exercised in the performance of a task. To operate that telescope you used past knowledge gained through propositional knowledge (type of knowledge that is expressed in declarative sentences) and procedural knowledge. The information gained through these methods are a posteriori because the knowledge comes after experience.
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