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Bergson, Time and Free Will
Chapter I, "The Intensity of Psychic States"
Part I, "Intensity and Extensity"
§1 "Can There be Quantitative Differences in Conscious States?"
It is common for people in everyday life – and it is also common for psychophysicists – to speak of sensations as being more-or-less intense than one another.
people say they are more or less warm, or more or less sad.
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on dit qu'on a plus ou moins chaud, qu'on est plus ou moins triste.
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We use these distinctions even in reference to subjective facts and unextended objects.
But this involves a very obscure point and a much more important problem than is usually supposed.
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Il y a là cependant un point fort obscur, et un problème beaucoup plus grave qu'on ne se l'imagine généralement.
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people say they are more or less warm, or more or less sad.
(1)
on dit qu'on a plus ou moins chaud, qu'on est plus ou moins triste.
(1)
But this involves a very obscure point and a much more important problem than is usually supposed.
(1)
Il y a là cependant un point fort obscur, et un problème beaucoup plus grave qu'on ne se l'imagine généralement.
Images from the pages summarized above, in the English Translation [click on the image for an enlargement]:
Images from the pages summarized above, in the original French [click on the image for an enlargement]:
Bergson, Henri. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Transl. F. L. Pogson, (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001).
Available online at:
http://www.archive.org/details/timeandfreewill00pogsgoog
French text from:
Bergson, Henri. Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience. Originally published Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1888.
http://www.archive.org/details/essaisurlesdonn00berguoft
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