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A Review
of
Henri Louis Bergson's Book
Time and Free Will
Fs 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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Fact, relation between law and, 140 f.;
explanation confused with, 163, 181.
Faraday, and centres of force, 218.
Fear, Spencer on, 30;
conceived as distinct state, 159.
Fechner, on attention and tension 27;
his psychophysics, 56, 60 ff.;
his formulae, 61, 62;
his law, 61;
his logarithmic law, 62 n;
method of minimum differences, 64, 69.
Feeling, intensity of, 7, 185;
deep-seated, 7 ff.;
aesthetic, 11 ff.;
of grace, 12 f.; (part of p. 11 moved to p. 12)
of beauty, 14 f.;
richness of aesthetic, 17 f.;
moral, 19 f.; (part of p. 18 moved to p. 19)
and physical symptoms, 20 ff.;
of effort, 21 ff., 211;
distortion by analysis, 132 f.;
something living and developing, 133;
leads to resolution, 133, 171;
whole soul reflected in each, 165;
change in duration of, means change in nature, 197 f.
Féré, C., on sensation and muscular force, 41.
Ferrier, on feeling of effort, 22. (Orig. p. 16 has nothing re: Ferrier on feeling of effort.)
Figure, see Diagram.
Flavour, changing, solidified by language, 131.
Force, alleged psychic, 21 f., 25; (part of p. 20 moved to p. 21)
muscular, 21;
nervous, 21;
sensation of, 21;
conscious states not forces, 165, 171; (part of p. 170 moved to p. 171)
idea of, as indeterminate effort, 214;
self as a free, 215; (part of p. 216 moved to p. 215)
idea of, and necessity, 216, 217;
as free spontaneity, 217;
ideas of free force and necessity separated by science, 218;
"Form of Sensibility," Kant's theory of, 94;
homogeneous space as, 236.
Forms, borrowed from external world in perception of self, l54, 167, 182, 217, 223;
borrowed from self in perception of things, 222;
of perception, result of compromise, 223;
elimination of those borrowed from external world, 224;
Kant's distinction between matter and, 93, 234.
Formulae, Weber's, 61;
Fechner's, 62;
dealing with velocity, 118.
Fouillée, on freedom as a motive, 160.
Fourth dimension, time as, 109.
Freedom,
Free Will,
see also Determinism: origin of problem, 74, 139, 221, 240;
cause of conflict between mechanism and dynamism, 140;
twofold objection to, 142;
and molecular theory of matter, 143 f.;
and conservation of energy, 145 ff.;
strictly limited if principle of conservation universal, 149 f.;
as conscious force, exempt from law of conservation, 154;
defenders of, mistakenly agree that conscious states are distinct things, 159;
Fouillée on, 160;
as self-expression, 165, 172;
not absolute, but admits of degrees, 166;
many live without realizing, 166;
may be curtailed by education, 167;
free acts rare, 167, 231, 240;
free decision springs from whole or fundamental self, 167, 172, 231, 240;
covered over by automatism, 168, 231, 237;
sometimes resigned through indolence, 169;
shown in times of crisis, 170, 239; (it is not obvious that 'crisis' appears on p. 239)
and character, 172;
to be sought in characteristic of the decision or act, 173, 182 f.;
Mill on, 174;
and "possible acts," 174;
free action compared to over-ripe fruit, 176;
distinction of successive phases in, leads to determinism, 178 ff.; (part of p. 177 to p. 178)
the self infallible in affirming its, 182; (part of p. 183 moved to p. 182)
not disproved, by causality as regular succession, 202 f.;
safeguarded by different conceptions of causality taken by themselves, 215 f.;
self as free cause, 216, 235;
real but indefinable, 219 ff., 230, 239 f.; (look for 'imperceptible' on p. 239)
why denied and defined, 229;
Kant on, 232, 233, 235, 238;
incomprehensible if duration homogeneous, 235;
key to problem of, 237 n.; (partial footnote of p. 238 moved to p. 237)
follows from uniqueness of relation of psychic state to act, 239.
Fusion, see Interpenetration.
Future, see Prediction.
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