Bergson

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1. Bergson - Noun

2. Bergson - Proper noun

Meaning

French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)

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According to Santayana and Russell, Bergson projected false claims onto the aspirations of scientific method, claims which Bergson needed to make in order to justify his prior moral commitment to freedom. Source: Internet

According to Russell, Bergson uses an outmoded spatial metaphor (“extended images”) to describe the nature of mathematics as well as logic in general. Source: Internet

After publishing The Concept of Nature in 1920, he served as president of the Aristotelian Society from 1922 to 1923, and Henri Bergson was quoted as saying that Whitehead was "the best philosopher writing in English." Source: Internet

Bergson did a large amount of travelling and lecturing in America during the war. Source: Internet

As Jean Wahl described the “ultimate disagreement” between James and Bergson in his System of Metaphysics: “for James, the consideration of action is necessary for the definition of truth, according to Bergson, action. Source: Internet

Bergson commented on the need for new ways of thinking about movement, and coined the terms "the movement-image" and "the time-image". Source: Internet

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