The positivistic limited frame of psychological science

James is an empiricist, but not at all in the positivistic limited frame of psychological science. For James it is an error to think that science and religion are in conflict. With James’ radical empiricism the conflict that exists is between religious, spiritual, and psychic world views and science conceived as naturalism. James famously argued that if one is committed to the view that “all crows are black, one can refute it by identifying a single white crow.