ABSTRACT
E. B. Holt and R. B. Perry were both good friends with the James boys, William's sons, particularly William James Jr., who later helped Holt translate Theodore Flournoy's Philosophe de William James into English. Holt wrote in many places, stating his debt to James's radical empiricism, believing he was modeling his own theories after that doctrine as James's most ardent disciple. Radical empiricism referred primarily to pure experience in the immediate moment before the differentiation of subject and object. The young Turks—Holt, Perry, and others—saw themselves as heirs to the Jamesean legacy, and radical empiricism was supposedly their guiding light. Although the New Realists did not completely understand James's radical empiricism, they nevertheless set it up as their idol, interweaving a good deal of the old philosophy James had criticized around it. James's correction on both ends of the spectrum was "Radical Empiricism."
