| Henri Bergson - 1912 - 112 pagine
...simple; in short, they study the workings of life in what is, so to speak, only its visual symbol. If there exists any means of possessing a reality...it without any expression, translation, or symbolic representation —metaphysics is that means. Metaphy. then, is the science which claims to dispen with... | |
| Henri Bergson - 1912 - 112 pagine
...simple; in short, they study the workings of life in what is, so to speak, only its visual symbol/'If there exists any means of possessing a reality absolutely...it without any expression, translation, or symbolic representation —^netaphysics is that means. Metaphysics, then, is the science which claims to dispense... | |
| George Robert Stow Mead - 1913 - 362 pagine
...conceptualism and contentless symbolism of the mathematical order. For Bergson metaphysics is " the means of possessing a reality absolutely instead of...it without any expression, translation or symbolic representation" (I. pp. 7 and 8). Metaphysics must thus transcend formal concepts and ideas to reach... | |
| Henri Bergson, Thomas Ernest Hulme - 1913 - 100 pagine
...simple; in short, they study the workings of life in what is, so to speak, only its visual symbol. If there exists any means of possessing a reality absolutely instead of knowing it relatively, of y . placing oneself within it instead of looking at it from outside points of view, of having the intuition... | |
| Darcy Butterworth Kitchin - 1914 - 338 pagine
...function of something other than itself." Science works, as a rule, by analysis, that is, by symbols. " If there exists any means of possessing a reality...within it instead of looking at it from outside points 188 of view, of having the intuition instead of making the analysis: in short, of seizing it without... | |
| James Livingston - 1997 - 428 pagine
...necessary nor possible, and of which only metaphysical intuition can provide an account. "If there exists a means of possessing a reality absolutely, instead...relatively, of placing oneself within it instead of adopting points of view toward it, of having the intuition of it instead of making the analysis of... | |
| Robert Kay Guan Chia, Robert Chia - 1996 - 268 pagine
...use of symbolic representations, that Bergson insists gives us an absolute understanding of reality. If there exists any means of possessing a reality...symbolic representation—metaphysics is that means. (Bergson 1911: 8) Metaphysical inquiry, then, is essentially that form of rigorous inquiry which attempts... | |
| Frederick Ferre, Frederick Ferré - 1996 - 428 pagine
...analysis, quit applying ready-made concepts to unique events, and take up the cultivation of intuition. If there exists any means of possessing a reality...symbolic representation—metaphysics is that means. Metaphysics, then, is the science which claims to dispense with symbols (Bergson 1955: 24, emphasis... | |
| James Livingston - 1997 - 428 pagine
...necessary nor possible, and of which only metaphysical intuition can provide an account. "If there exists a means of possessing a reality absolutely, instead...relatively, of placing oneself within it instead of adopting points of view toward it, of having the intuition of it instead of making the analysis of... | |
| Henri Bergson - 1999 - 80 pagine
...simple; in short, they study the workings of life in what is, so to speak, only its visual symbol. If there exists any means of possessing a reality...symbolic representationmetaphysics is that means. Metaphysics, then, is the science which claims to dispense with symbols. There is one reality, at least,... | |
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