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Experience and Radical Empiricism
How Pragmatism develops Experience and Radical Empiricism.
Experience is a continuous, relational stream that includes both objective facts and subjective relations, rejecting dualisms like mind versus matter.
Where it surfaces
- Lecture IV: The One and the Many
James emphasizes that oneness and manyness are experienced in specific, concrete ways, and that philosophical claims must be grounded in experience.
- Lecture VI: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
Emphasizes that truth is grounded in experience and the practical consequences of ideas, rejecting abstract, transcendent notions of agreement.
- Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and Religion
James grounds religious belief in concrete experience and the emotional and spiritual uses of ideas, rather than abstract metaphysical proofs.