Bergsonian

comparative more Bergsonian · superlative most Bergsonian

1. Of or relating to Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher, who convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science in understanding reality.

   Jimmie, who was so lost in extensional ‘spatial’ time, was perfectly organised in Bergsonian ‘intentional’ time; what was fugitive, unsustainable, as formal structure, was perfectly stable, perfectly held, as art or will.

   1985, Oliver Sacks, “The Lost Mariner”, chapter 2 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007 edition), page 41

   Synonyms: Bergsonist

plural Bergsonians

1. A follower of Bergsonian philosophy; an adherent of Bergsonism.

   Synonyms: Bergsonist