[MD] Reductionism

[Krimel]

Ron:
Therefore James is not expanding sensory empiricism, he is to a point,
but he is by limiting it to expereince, percept is actually a concept and
it's primacy is actually conceptual, it stands symbolically for raw sensory
data, but we never experience raw sensory data, it is an assumption 
drawn from experience. The reason he focuses on value and meaning
in his work on "Pragmatism".

[Krimel]
No, he makes the distinction clear. Perception is primary and concepts are
secondary.

Even the much vaunted "pure experience" is entirely a matter of sensation.

>From a World of Pure Experience:

“Pure experience” is the name which I gave to the immediate flux of life
which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual
categories. Only new-born babes, or men in semi-coma from sleep, drugs,
illnesses or blows, may be assumed to have an experience pure in the literal
sense of a that which is not yet any definite what, tho ready to be all
sorts of whats; full both of oneness and of manyness, but in respects that
don’t appear; changing throughout, yet so confusedly that its phases
interpenetrate and no points, either of distinction or of identity, can be
caught. Pure experience in this state is simply but another name for feeling
or sensation.