This encyclopedism does not preclude lack of actual experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introducing A Journey Round My Skull « Jahsonic] Reference

This was one of the primary goals of Byzantine scholarship in the tenth century; rather than creating new knowledge and areas of study, the scholars of that era labored to preserve the legacy of the past, and the Suda is one of the culminating achievements of "the encyclopedism of the tenth century.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SUDA/SUIDAS.] Reference

By the end of the sixteenth century, the humanistic, creative period of the Renaissance was thus disciplined and intellectualized, so that eclecticism flowered into encyclopedism — an effort, not without eschatological sanction, to exhaust the possibilities of knowledge and to organize it in a logically structured way.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference

Page 460, Volume 3 which we have already noted became important in affecting changes in philosophy, and therefore also in the ideal of a perennial philosophy: the revival of metaphysics and the critical examination of first prin - ciples of “being as being,” which arose from theological controversy; encyclopedism, the impulse, coming from the new spirit of discovery, to exhaust the possibilities of human knowledge and its ordering through a logical method; and the success of a method combining expe - rience and reason (particularly mathematical) in achieving certainty in the new sciences of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference