Vittorio Benussi should be considered the empiricist of the Graz School. His emphasis on the primacy of experience was absolutely radical. Moreover, he constantly warned about the perils of constructing global theories holding that to do so inevitably deforms empirical data, especially when researchers are forced to fit the same data into a systematic edifice. This problem, Benussi held, was no less serious when the acquired data was arrived at by means of methodologically sound procedures.