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- adjective Of or relating to Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941),
French philosopher , who convinced many thinkers that immediateexperience andintuition are more significant thanrationalism andscience in understanding reality.
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Bergsonian definition of love, when he was stopped by Terrence, who had noticed the pain that swept across
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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Hancock waves the glittering veils of Bergsonian metaphysics,
CHAPTER XX 2010
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The Bergsonian idea about living in the world had seeped deep into the reality of the time.
Allan M. Jalon: ARTS LUST: Remembering Henri Bergson Allan M. Jalon 2011
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This is Bergsonian comedy – the human made mechanical – and would seem cruel, if it were not that we have inhabited Alfred's scrambled thoughts for much of the voyage.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen John Mullan 2010
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Much as there is to be said about the intuition, I will mention only that there are various types or levels of it: the Bergsonian intuition, which occurs predominantly at the normal personality levels, is very different from that of Plotinus, which is purely spiritual.
C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009
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Hartshorne's Platonic or Bergsonian argument against creation ex nihilo, in simplified form, looks something like this: one can in fact imagine the nonexistence of this or that, or even of this or that class of things, a fact that gives some the confidence to
Charles Hartshorne Dombrowski, Dan 2009
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Maritain sought to defend Thomistic philosophy from its Bergsonian and secular opponents.
Jacques Maritain Sweet, William 2008
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The positive name for that genetic condition is the virtual, which Deleuze adopts from the following Bergsonian argument.
Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008
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He had attended some of Bergson's lectures in Paris and had incorporated some elements of Bergsonian philosophy into his own system.
George Santayana Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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They still remained within the confines of a Bergsonian “closed religion,” of a Church outside which there is no salva - tion.
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968
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