In one of them, which I shall call the modest interpretation, Sharf is not arguing against the category of experience—experiences however we might conceive them—just against the rhetoric of experience—experiences conceived of as private, subjective, indubitable, and immediate. In the modest interpretation, Sharf holds that if we conceive of experience like the rhetoricians of experience, then the term “experience” does not have what it takes to be a sufficiently meaningful term.