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Henri Bergson

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Noun1.Henri Bergson - French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)Henri Bergson - French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson
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The French philosopher Henri Bergson defines the present as "ungraspable .
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3) At the beginning of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson championed intuitive over intellectual models of perception, positing anelan vital as a creative process of apprehending the world.
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Vitalism, whose best-known proponents have been Henri Bergson in the Belle Epoque and Rupert Sheldrake in our own era, does resemble creationism in that it acknowledges the need for a causal principle to initiate and sustain the formative action all around us.
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