Full Idea
'Substance' appears now only as another name for the fact that phenomena as they come are actually grouped and given in coherent forms.
Gist of Idea
'Substance' is just a word for groupings and structures in experience
Source
William James (Pragmatism - eight lectures [1907], Lec 4)
Book Reference
James,William: 'Pragmatism - eight lectures' [Dover 1995], p.57
A Reaction
This is the strongly empirical strain in James's empiricism. This sounds like a David Lewis comment on the Humean mosaic of experience. We Aristotelians at least believe that the groups run much deeper than the surface of experience.