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

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Alphabetical Reference Index to Bergson's Time and Free Will
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Pain, and pity, 19 f.; (part of page 18 moved to page 19)
as sign of future reaction, 33;
intensity of, 35 f.;
Darwin on, 37;
conceived as distinct thing, 159.
Paradox, the Eleatic, 74, 113 f., 240. (part of page 112 moved to page 113)
Parallelism, of physical and psychical series, 146 f.
Paralysis, and feeling of effort, 21, 22.
Past, no recurrence of, 154, 200 f., 219, 232, 233, 239.
Paul, his prediction of Peter's action, 184 ff.
Pendulum, counting oscillations of, 104 f.;
what do oscillations of, measure, 107 ff.;
oscillations of, help to cut up our psychic life, 109;
spreads out undivided tension of spring, 228.
Permeation, see Interpenetration.
Peter, Paul's prediction of his action, 184 ff.
Photometric experiments, 52 ff.
Physics, and sound-vibrations, 46;
and degrees of luminous intensity, 52 f.;
interested in external cause, 71;
physical phenomena and law, 202;
Cartesian, 207, 208;
Descartes' instantaneous, 208;
and forecasting of phenomena, 222, 230.
Pillon, F., article on number and space, 75 n.
Pitch, of a sound, 44 f.
Plateau, his method of measuring luminous sensation, 56.
Plato, quoted, 168;
Platonic reminiscence, 234.
Pleasure, as sign of future reaction, 33 f.;
and bodily inclination, 38;
keenness of, as inertia of organism, 38;
conceived a distinct thing, 159.
Poetry, how effects produced, 15.
"Possible acts," 174 f., 239.
Postulate, Delbœuf's, 60;
Fechner's, 60;
fundamental, of psychophysics, 65, 70;
underlying geometrical representation of voluntary activity, 179.
Prediction, astronomical, 116, 192 ff., 198; (part of page 117 moved to page 116)
determinism and, 173, 183 ff., 220;
real duration and, 183 ff.;
of future actions, 183 ff., 229, 239;
probable and infallible, 183 f.;
and character, 184, 172;
hypothetical case of Peter and Paul, 184 ff.;
all foreseeing as seeing, 195, 197, 198;
of phenomena, and physics, 222, 230.
Prefiguring, of future phenomenon in present conditions, 204 ff., 210;
two kinds of , 204 ff., 215;
as in mathematics, 204 f.;
as having idea of possible future act, 211 f.
Pressure, sensation of, 48 f. (part of page 47 moved to page 48)
Process, motion as a, 111;
conscious states not things but, 131, 196;
misleading to substitute material symbol for, 190;
cannot be analysed, 210, 219. (We added page 219; explicit statement of his axiom there.)
Progress, motion as a, 111;
not divisible, 112;
cannot be represented by geometrical figure, 181;
misleading to substitute material symbol for, 190;
psychic state as a, 198;
from idea to act, 211.
Providence, Descartes and grace of, 208.
Psychology, descriptive, limits of, 139;
sometimes misled by language, 165;
deals with intervals of duration and not their extremities, 196;
modern, and perception through subjective forms, 222.
Psychophysics, and measurement of sensations, 1, 55 ff.;
measurement of intensity of light, 52 ff.;
Delbœuf's experiments, 52, 56, 58 f., 67 f.;
method of mean gradations, 56, 59, 67, 69;
method of minimum differences, 64 f., 69;
Delbœuf's postulate, 60;
Weber's Law, 61; (part of page 60 moved to page 61)
all, involved in transition from stimulus to amount of sensation, 61;
Fechner's Law, 61 f.;
postulate of, 65, 70;
fallacy of all, 65 f., 70;
exaggerations of , 225.
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