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  • adjective Of or relating to Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher, who convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science in understanding reality.

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Bergson +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Bergsonian definition of love, when he was stopped by Terrence, who had noticed the pain that swept across

    CHAPTER XXIII 2010

  • Hancock waves the glittering veils of Bergsonian metaphysics,

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Maritain sought to defend Thomistic philosophy from its Bergsonian and secular opponents.

    Jacques Maritain Sweet, William 2008

  • The positive name for that genetic condition is the virtual, which Deleuze adopts from the following Bergsonian argument.

    Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008

  • 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

  • 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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