'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life whi…

William James
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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ✨ William James (2015). Essays in Radical Empiricism, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing
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