I need to understand something uhm..
(14M) So, I've been studying philosophy for about a year or two, and I've been really interested in philosophical disciplines - metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, etc. - and I see it as the reason why I would like to study philosophy (along with psychology). I started to personally study "objective reality" and I met both Aristotle (as the first Rational philosopher, as they say) and Immanuel Kant, or Ayn Rand (the popular power is not what I've heard). So I'm interested in: can I know objective reality through reason? Or would I have to experience something directly to know it? (if I'm not mistaken, this probably applies to Phenomenology) couldn't I rather experience something (through my subjective perceptions) and then understand, thanks to reason, from the given experience the principle that I should take from the experience?
I apologize if this belongs to another discipline, or if my question is not sufficiently expressed - and I apologize for the bad terminology (I'm working on it heh).