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

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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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Saturation, of a colour, 54.
Scale, notes of, why classified as higher and lower, 45 f.
Science, eliminates duration from time and mobility from motion, 115 ff., 228;
and hypothetical acceleration of motions of universe, 116, 193 ff.;
attempts to do away with duration and causality, 208 f.;
separates ideas of free effort and necessary determination, 218;
attempts to measure intensive quantity, 225;
separates extensity and duration, 228, 230;
main object of, 230;
could deal with time if homogeneous, 234.
Scottish philosophers, 73. (part of page 72 moved to page 73)
Sculpture, ancient, 15.
Self, whole, reflected in each conscious state, 98, 165;
recovery of the fundamental, 100, 128, 129, 231, 233, 236, 240;
introduces distinctions derived from external objects into its own states, 109, 225, 237;
superficial, with mutually external states, 125, 128, 136, 138, 167, 217;
deep-seated, with interpenetrating states, 125, 128, 136, 164, 216;
many conscious states never blend with whole mass of, 135, 166, 168;
perceived by refraction through space, 128, 129, 137, 167, 183, 217, 223;
the two aspects of the, 129 ff., 137, 231;
tendency to form secondary, 138, 166;
not an association of terms, 139, 159 ff., 164, 165, 226;
recourse to living and concrete, necessary to solve problems of causality, freedom, etc., 130;
activity of, cannot be compared to that of any other force, 142, 217; (part of p. 143 to 142)
perception of, through forms borrowed from external world, 154, 217, 223;
self-determination, 165;
parasitic, as a result of education, 166;
free decisions spring from whole or fundamental, 167, 172, 231, 240;
covered over with crust of clean-cut psychic states, 167;
does not intervene in carrying out every-day acts, 168;
uprush of deep-seated, at moment of crisis, 169;
distinction of psychic states leads to mechanical conception of, 171;
constantly changing and growing, 171, 175 f.;
view of, involved in geometrical representation of process of deciding, 176 f.;
infallible in affirming its immediate experiences, 183;
as a free force, 216, 235;
Kant put free, outside space and duration, 233;
Kant and phenomenal, 233;
as a free cause, 235.
Sensations, intensity of, 1 ff., 7 ff., 20 ff., 40, 42, 47, 72 f.;
art yielding only, 17;
and external causes, 20 ff.;
peripheral, and muscular effort, 24, 26;
peripheral, and violent emotions, 31;
magnitude of, 31, 32, 47, 72;
affective and representative: affective, 32 ff., 72 f.;
and organic disturbance, 32 f.;
pleasure and pain, 33 ff.;
affective, and free movements, 33;
representative, 39 ff., 73, 90;
medium, 41;
representative, measured by external causes, 42;
of sound, 43 f.;
of heat and cold, 46 f., 64;
of pressure and weight, 47 f.;
increase of, and sensation of increase, 48;
as quantity or quality, 48;
of movement, 50;
of light, 50 ff.;
measurement of luminous, 52 ff.;
psychophysics attempts to measure, 55 ff., 62, 63, 225;
equal and identical, 57, 62, 63, 64, 69;
law connecting stimulus and, 60 f.;
as quantities, 62, 65, 66;
addition of, 64;
considered as a sum, 65, 67;
how quantitative differences set up between, 71 f.;
as pure quality, 72;
and space, 92, 93, 95;
can space be built up from, 94;
simultaneous and identical, 95;
of motion, indivisible, 112;
influence of language on, 131;
not objects but processes, 131;
altered by repetition, 131;
physics treats, as signs of reality, 223.
Series, natural, of numbers, 2, 80;
double aspect of each term in a, 124, 226;
physical and psychical, 210.
"Several," use of, implies space, 122.
Shape, as quality of matter, 205.
Simplicity, different senses of, in dynamism and mechanism, 141.
Simultaneity,

implies space, 95;
measuring duration and counting, 108 f.;
as connecting link between space and duration, 110;
definition of, 110;
in measuring velocity, 114, 117;
used in defining equal intervals of time, 116, 119;
in space nothing but, 116, 206, 227;
and astronomical prediction, 116 f., 193 ff.;
dealt with by mathematics, 119;
attempted representation of succession by, 180, 221;
all relations not translatable into, are scientifically unknowable, 234.

See our 2005 QELR of simultaneity.

Sleep, and perception of duration, 126.
Smell, illustration from associations of, 161 f.
Social life, self with well-defined states better adapted to, 128, 137, 139, 167, 231;
more important than our inner life, 130;
intuition of homogeneous medium as step towards, 138, 163, 236.
Solidification, of an act, in space, 112;
of changing feelings, promoted by language and external objects, 129 f.;
of sensations owing to language, 131;
of ideas on surface of consciousness, 135, 166, 168;
of conscious states, promotes social life, 231;
of conscious states, how brought about, 237.
Sorrow, an increasing, 11.
Sound, sensations of, 43 ff.;
intensity of, 43 ff.;
pitch of, 45;
why classified as higher and lower, 45 f.
Space, and magnitude, 2;
introduced into perception of duration, 74;
article on number and, 75 n.;
intuition of, implied in counting, 77 ff., 83 f., 225;
material objects counted in, 85 f.;
conscious states not countable unless symbolically represented in, 86 f., 89, 90;
idea of impenetrability shows interconnection of number and, 89;
projection of psychic states into, 90, 101, 106, 231;
time, but not duration, as spatial, 90 f.;
reality of, 91 f., 95, 110;
as common element in certain sensations, 92;
Kant's theory of, 92, 93;
nativistic and empirical theories of, 93;
Müller's theory, 93;
Lotze's theory, 93;
Bain's theory, 93;
Wundt's theory, 93;
attempt to build up, from inextensive sensations, 93 f., 99 f., 222;
definition of, 95, 98;
as a homogeneous medium without quality, 95 ff., 98;
not so homogeneous for animals, 96;
intuition of homogeneous, peculiar to man, 97, 236;
intuition of, necessary to counting, abstraction and speech, 97;
is time, as homogeneous medium, reducible to, 98 f.;
time as ghost of, 99;
duration expressed in terms of, 101, 110;
order of succession implies, 101 f.;
symbolical representation of succession as line implies, 103;
time as fourth dimension of, 109;
simultaneity as connecting link between time and, 110;
and motion, 110 ff.;
projection of act into, 112, 181;
infinitely divisible, 113, 114;
as homogeneous element in motion, 115;
the only measurable element In motion, 116, 118, 119;
nothing but simultaneities in, 116, 206, 227;
alone homogeneous, 120;
no duration or succession in, 120 227;
self perceived by refraction through, 128, 129, 137, 167, 183, 217, 223;
intuition of homogeneous, as step towards social life, 138, 163, 236;
connexion between perception of, and general ideas, 163;
is time space? 181, 190, 221;
time confused with, in prediction, 191 ff.;
as result of stripping matter of concrete qualities, 205;
separated from time by Kant, 222;
must be eliminated in studying inner phenomena, 229;
Kant confused time with, 232;
Kant put the free self outside, 233;
we usually live and act in, not in duration, 233;
Kant on time and, 233;
existence of homogeneous, assumed, 236;
as a "form of sensibility," 236;
intuition of, what it accomplishes, 236.
Spectrum, colours of the, 51, 54, 57.
Spencer, H., on gracefulness, 13;
on expression of fear, 30.
Spinoza, on modes of thought and modes of extension, 147;
on causality and apparent succession in time, 208;
conception of causality which leads to, 208, 213;
Spinozistic mechanism, 209.
Spontaneity, idea of, simpler than that of inertia, 141;
force as a free, 217;
settling down into inertia, 220.
Stimulus, law connecting sensation with, 60 ff.;
effect of slight but continuous, 106.
Subjective, definition of, 83.
Succession, attempt to derive extensity from, 99 f., 222;
of conscious states compared to rhythm of tune, 100;
without distinction, 101;
order of, implies distinction and therefore space, 101 f.;
cannot be symbolized as a line without idea of space, 103 f.;
within the ego succession, without, only externality, 108, 227;
exists only for conscious spectator, 108, 120, 227;
endosmosis between externality and, 109, 228;
none in space, 120, 227;
attempt to represent by simultaneity, 180, 221;
causality as regular, 202 f.;
no regular, in deep-seated psychic states, 203;
attempt to transform into inherence, 209;
apparent, of phenomena, 201, 227;
of phenomena and conscious states, 212, 216;
Leibniz and, 213;
attributed to things, 228;
idea of measurable time arises from compromise between simultaneity and, 228.
Suggestion, in art, 14 ff.;
in music, 15, 44.
Symbolical Representation, necessary to counting of conscious states, 86 f., 89, 90;
of a line, implies idea of space, 103;
pure duration cannot be measured without. 105;
of duration, derived from space, 110;
of time as homogeneous medium, 124 f.;
of elements of a conscious state, 163;
of the self and its feelings, given by determinism, 171;
of process of coming to a decision, 175 ff.;
leads to determinism, 178;
of time as a line, 182;
cannot be substituted for dynamic process, 190;
of ego, confused by Kant with ego itself, 232.
Sympathy, physical and grace, 13;
with Nature, 16;
with misfortune, 19.
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