Bergsonian
- a word derived from Bergson.
Example Sentences
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Miss Williams is not a Bergsonian, though she appreciates his plastic theories.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
He had made for himself a curious personal religion, a bizarre mixture of theosophy and neoplatonism and Bergsonian philosophy, a faith that prescribed transport; and these works were in part conceived as rituals.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
Could any vitalist, or Bergsonian idealist have stated his case better?
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
Bergsonian dialectic regards ordinary "spatial" time as an inferior category; and finds the real movement of life in a species of time called "duration," which can only be detected by the interior feeling of intuition.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
Mechanism and chemism are adequate to account for astronomy and geology, and therefore, he thinks, are sufficient to account for biology, without calling in the aid of any Bergsonian life impulse.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
