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A Review
of
Henri Louis Bergson's Book
Time and Free Will
Cs Index
by Doug Renselle

C

Alphabetical Reference Index to Bergson's Time and Free Will
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Causality, law of, 199, 201;
as regular succession, 202 f.;
common sense and meaning of, 203;
as prefiguring of [a] future phenomenon in present conditions, 204 ff.;
not a necessary principle, 208;
Spinoza on, identity and, 209, 210;
as necessary determination of phenomena means human freedom, 210;
and second type of prefiguring, 211 f.;
this leads to Leibniz, 213;
this does not involve determinism, 214;
involves two conceptions of duration, 215;
confusion of these two senses, 216;
relation of external, as mathematical, 219;
relation of inner, as dynamic, 219;
Kant ascribed same meaning to, in inner and outer world, 232.
Cause, external, and intensity, 4 f., 20, 42 ff., 72;
introduced into effect, 42, 47, 54, 68;
external, and separation of sensations, 109, 125;
series of associations sometimes effect rather than, 156 ff.;
in inner states no recurrence of same, 154, 199 f., 233;
assertion that effect bound up with, 201;
analysis of concept of, 201;
self as free, 235.
Cell, in organism, beliefs compared to, 135.
Change, but not duration, attributed to external things, 227.
Character, freedom and, 172 f.;
and prediction of future actions, 184.
Clocks, measurement of time by, 108 f.;
perception of strokes of without expressly counting, 127.
Coexistence, number and relations of, 75 n.;
can space result from relations of, 94;
of past and present only in consciousness, 112.
Cold, perception of, 47. (part of p. 46 moved to p. 47)
Colour, changes of hue and invariable colour, 51;
white, grey and black, 53 f.;
degrees of saturation, 54;
intensity of, 54;
colours of spectrum, 51, 54, 57;
changes in sensation of, 57;
can there be equidistant tints, 58.
Compromise, see also Endosmosis:
between idea of free force and necessity, 217;
forms of perception result of, 223;
intensity as compromise between quality and quantity, 225;
number results from a, 226;
idea of measurable time results from a, 228.
Consciousness, compared to invisible musicians, 147;
as epiphenomenon, 152;
Kant separates external perception and, 222;
succession without distinction in, 227;
matter and form of, 234.
Conservation, of energy, see Energy;
of motion, 151;
of vis viva, 151;
conservative systems not the only ones possible, 152.
Continuity, of number when formed, 82 f.
Contradiction, law of non-, 89, 150, 207;
reconciliation of apparent at deeper level, 136.
Counting, units must be identical, 76;
also distinct, 77;
flock of sheep, 76 f.;
battalion of soldiers, 76;
implies intuition of space, 77 ff.;
material objects, 85;
conscious states, 86, 89;
strokes of a bell, 86;
moments of duration, 104;
oscillations of a pendulum, 104 f.;
two sides of the process of, 123;
strokes of a clock by qualitative effect, 127.
Crisis, freedom shown at, 170, 219.
Critique of Pure Reason, result of, 235.
Critique Philosophique, article in, 75 n.
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