Quite. Bergson might not reach the same level of awfulness as the examples David Stove pillories, but I couldn’t penetrate the fog of this paragraph, not even with the context. I think Wikipedia nails the jelly to the wall, though: Bergson argued that “immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality”. In which case, −1 to Bergson. I learn from the article that Bergson also coined the expression élan vital.
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Quite. Bergson might not reach the same level of awfulness as the examples David Stove pillories, but I couldn’t penetrate the fog of this paragraph, not even with the context. I think Wikipedia nails the jelly to the wall, though: Bergson argued that “immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality”. In which case, −1 to Bergson. I learn from the article that Bergson also coined the expression élan vital.