Bergson, Henri
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1859 to 1941
 
Bergson convinced many thinkers that <b>immediate experience and </b><a href="/wiki/Intuition"><b>intuition</b></a><b> are more significant than </b><a href="/wiki/Rationalism"><b>rationalism</b></a><b> and </b><a href="/wiki/Science"><b>science</b></a><b> for understanding </b><a href="/wiki/Reality"><b>reality</b></a>.
 
father, Polish Jew
mother  Katherine Levison,  Eniglish Irish Jewish.
 
1900 paper  Psych Origins of the Belief in the Law of Causality
 
1908  travel to London and met with Wm James... great firendship.
 
This article deals with the <b>conception of thought as a </b><a title="Stream of consciousness (psychology)" href="/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness_(psychology)"><b>stream of consciousness</b></a><b>, which </b><a href="/wiki/Intellect"><b>intellect</b></a><b> distorts by framing into concept</b>s.
 
The influence of Bergson had led James "to renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that <a href="/wiki/Logic">logic</a> is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be". It had induced him, he continued, "to give up logic, squarely and irrevocably" as a method, for he found that "reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows, and surrounds it.
 
 
 
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