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

D

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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Dancer, and feeling of grace, 12.
Darwin, on rage, 29;
on violent emotions and reflex movements, 30;
on pain and reactions, 37.
Definition, of equality of sensation-differences, 64;
of addition of sensation-differences, 64, 65;
of number, 75;
of subjective and objective, 83;
of space, 95, 98;
none of right and left, 97;
of simultaneity, 110;
of equal intervals of time, 115;
of velocity, 117 f.;
of inertia of matter, 142;
of freedom, leads to determinism, 220 f., 230, 239.
Delbœuf, his measurement of luminous sensation, 52, 56 ff., 67 ff.;
his underlying postulate, 60.
Deliberation, process of, 158, 171;
wrongly pictured as oscillation in space, 183.
Depth, of esthetic feeling, 17 f.;
of emotional states, 31.
Descartes, and conservation of motion, 151;
his mischievous genius, 193;
his view of matter, 207;
Cartesian physics, 207;
and regularity of physical world, 208.
Desire, progress of a, 8;
conceived as a distinct thing, 159.
Determinism, two kinds of, 142;
physical, 143 ff.;
psychological, 155 ff.;
rests on misconception of duration, 143, 173;
and molecular theory of matter, 143 f., 147;
of psychic states does not follow from that of cerebral states, 146 f.;
associationist, 148, 156, 159; (part of p. 155 moved to p. 156)
and hypnotism, 157;
self-determination, 165, 172;
its mechanical conception of self, 171;
could act have been different? 173, 201, 220, 239;
can act be predicted? 173, 183 ff., 201, 220, 239;
and "possible acts," 174;
and character, 184 ff., 172;
and astronomical prediction, 192 ff.;
and law of causality, 199 ff.;
misunderstanding of causality underlies all, 201 ff.;
of phenomena as involving human freedom, 210, 215 ff.;
not involved in second type of prefiguring, 211 f., 215 f.;
Leibniz's, 214;
as compromise between idea of free effort and necessity, 217;
attempt to define freedom leads to, 220, 230, 239;
all refuted by experience, 230;
meaningless if duration heterogeneous, 235, 239.
Diagrams, geometrical, 176, 191.
Differentials, expressing Fechner's Law, 62, 65;
dealing with motion, 119.
Dimension, time as forth, 109.
Discontinuity, of number, 82 f.
Disgust, Richet's description of, 36.
Distinction, two meanings of, 75 n., 121;
succession without, 101;
of psychic states, leads to mechanical conception of self, 171;
Kant's, between matter and form of consciousness, 234.
Donaldson, experiments on temperature sense, 47. (part of p. 46 moved to p. 47)
Dreams, freshness in, 8;
charm in, 10;
superficial psychic states removed in, 126;
overlying [quantum superposing] images in, 136.
Duration,

moments counted by means of points in space, 78 f., 87;
differs from homogeneous time in having nothing to do with space, 91;
empirical attempts to build up space from, 99 f., 222;
conception of pure, 100, 103, 104 ff., 229; (added p.103; 'topic rounding' moved some text)
expressed in terms of space, 101, 103, 232;
order of succession in, 102 f.; (original was on page 101; our 'sentence rounding' moved it)
any homogeneity in, implies space, 103, 115; (this and next line, part of p. 104 to p. 103)
as interpenetration of conscious states, 103, 107, 108, 110, 128, 218, 226, 232 ff., 235;
pure, is wholly qualitative, 106, 126 f., 229;
not measurable, 107 ff.;
not measured by clocks, 108 f.;
as heterogeneous and with no relation to number, 109, 110, 120, 226, 229, 235, 239;
how mistaken idea of homogeneity arises, 109;
and motion, 111, 114, 124; (part of p. 110 moved to p. 111)
eliminated from time by science, 115, 116, 228;
and simultaneity, 114 f.; (part of p. 115 moved to p. 114, for 'topic rounding')
and astronomical prediction, 116, 192 ff.; (part of p. 117 moved to p. 116, 'topic rounding')
cannot be represented by mathematical formulae, 119;
as mental synthesis, 120;
none in space, 120, 227;
as quality, 127, 193, 197, 226;
felt as quality in sleep, 126;
perceived as quality by animals, 127;
homogeneous, as symbolical representation derived from space, 128, 219, 239, 240;
its two forms, 128;
constituted by deep-seated conscious states, 137, 224;
determinism rests on inaccurate conception of, 143, 153, 173, 183, 209, 215 f., 220, 235, 239; (added p. 183)
acts like a cause in realm of life, 153;
heterogeneity of, precludes return to former state, 154, 200, 219, 232, 233, 239;
real and prediction, 183 ff.;
of conscious states unalterable, 196 f.;
difference between past and future, 198;
applicable to persons, not to external things, 200, 209 f., 215, 227;
as contained in single moment, 208;
real, as leading to free will, 210, 215 f.;
attributed to things, 215, 228;
two conceptions of, in causality, 215;
separated from extensity by science, 228 f., 230;
must similarly be separated by philosophy, 229 f.;
Kant put self outside, 233;
possible to get back into pure, 233;
Kant confused with space, 233;
science cannot deal with, 234;
if homogeneous, no freedom, 235;
origin of feeling of, 237 n.; (moved whole note to p. 237)
no moral crisis without, 237 n.;
key to problem of free will, 237 n.

Also, see these Quantonics' web pages depicting Bergsonian duration:

Dynamism, as system of nature, 140;
and relation between facts and laws, 140 f.;
its view of simplicity, 141;
inner, 172.
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