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Ideas of Chauncey Wright, by Text

[American, 183 - 1875, Lecturer at Harvard. Founder of the Metaphysical Club.]

1870 talk
p.101 Behind the bare phenomenal facts there is nothing
     Full Idea: Behind the bare phenomenal facts, as my tough-minded old friend Chauncey Wright, the great Harvard empiricist of my youth, used to say, there is nothing.
     From: Chauncey Wright (talk [1870]), quoted by William James - Pragmatism - eight lectures Lec 7
     A reaction: This is the best slogan for strong phenomenalism ever coined! It also seems to fit David Lewis's approach to philosophy, as the pure study of the mosaic of experiences.