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My Zen teacher, Steve Hagen, describes himself as a radical empiricist.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2018

He who takes for his hypothesis the notion that it is the permanent form of the world is what I call a radical empiricist.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

This is what, as a radical empiricist, I say to the charge that the objective reference which is so flagrant a character of our experiences involves a chasm and a mortal leap.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William