That's like saying you can't make any judgement about whether cocaine is right for you without first snorting it. There are a great many things we know about experiences, either vicariously or through the intellectual study of others, that we can use to deduce how something would affect us.
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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel
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