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(Most quotes verbatim Henri Louis Bergson, some paraphrased.) |
(Relevant to Pirsig, William James Sidis, and Quantonics Thinking Modes.) |
| "WE necessarily express ourselves
by means of words and we usually think in terms of space. That
is to say, language requires us to establish between our ideas
the same sharp and precise distinctions, the same discontinuity,
as between material objects. This assimilation of thought to
things is useful in practical life and necessary in most of the
sciences. But it may be asked whether
the insurmountable difficulties presented by certain philosophical
problems do not arise from our placing side by side in space
phenomena which do not occupy space, and whether, by merely getting
rid of the clumsy symbols round which we are fighting, we might
not bring the fight to an end. When
an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended,
of quality into quantity, has introduced contradiction
into the very heart of the question, contradiction
must, of course, recur in the answer. "The problem which I have chosen is one which is common to metaphysics and psychology, the problem of free will." |
(Our bold and color.) Bergson restarts his footnote counts on each page. So to refer a footnote, one must state page number and footnote number. Our bold and color highlights follow a code:
Having previously read and digested both Bergson's Creative Evolution and his An Introduction to Metaphysics, we must agree: contradiction recurs as classicism's scientific means for answering all questions — including philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific. Too, we know that quantum reality's philosophy, metaphysics, and science — in agreement with Bergson's prescient views — deny any possibility of classical contradiction. Concurring with quantum reality Bergson tells us in his Creative Evolution that negation is subjective! |
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"What I attempt to prove is that all discussion between the determinists and their opponents implies a previous confusion of duration with extensity, of succession with simultaneity, of quality with quantity: this confusion once dispelled, we may perhaps witness the disappearance of the objections raised against free will, of the definitions given of it, and, in a certain sense, of the problem of free will itself. To prove this is the object of the third part of the present volume: the first two chapters, which treat of the conceptions of intensity and duration, have been written as an introduction to the third." H. BERGSON. February, 1888. |
(Our bold.) See Bergson's Index on Duration. |