1. Bergson - Noun
2. Bergson - Proper noun
French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
Source: WordNetAccording 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