radical empiricist

• a word derived from radical empiricism.
  radical empiricism

  noun

  (in the philosophy of William James) the doctrine that the only proper subject matter of philosophy is that which can be defined in terms of experience, and that relations are a part of experience.

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radical empiricist

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2018

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 William James

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 William James

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