ABSTRACT
The present reflection comprises a survey of the most important terms and their relations to one another that are relevant to describing the structure of experience from the position of life as apprehended by a finite conscious center with no ontological commitments except for the renunciation of ontological commitments. Experience is the medium of conscious life; to risk a misleading characterization, it is conscious life's substantial form. Experience is, as has been stated, formed contents, not merely abstracted form. The serio-comic sense of life is the subjective response to the phantasmagoria. It is the base-line mood through which life is felt and judged in the present reflective review of experience. The Canadian philosopher George Grant deployed the image of being lost in a pine forest as a metaphor for the human being's existential situation, and, for him, it was a terrorizing depiction.
