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Although J.M.E. McTaggart and Henri Bergson are both believed that time is observed in the passing of events, McTaggart’s arguments for the unreality of time prove more convincing than Bergson’s due to Bergson’s belief in time as heterogeneous in composition, subjective in nature, and indivisible structure.
Henri Bergson
19th century French Philosopher, once widely recognized and respected throughout France although he has now fallen from the public eye. Best know for his essays Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience), published as his doctoral thesis in 1889 and Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation du corps a l'ésprit) published 1896, Henri Bergson has published many other works including An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903) and Creative Evolution (1932).
Duration
Henri Bergson believed intuit, non-mechanical time to be in the form of Dureé or Duration. In this view, time is pure motion and mobility, indivisible and unquantifiable-- unrepresentable in its entirety by any stationary method.
Heterogeneous Composition
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
three Series
Glossary
- A-Series: The first of J.M.E. McTaggart’s methods for describing the relationship between moments in time, highlights the change of events from past to present to future and how each event contains all three of these instances.
- B-Series: The second of J.M.E. McTaggart’s methods for describing relationships between moments in time, focuses on the order of events i.e. whether an event happens before, after or at the same of as the event in question. It is a combination of both the A- and C- Series.
- C-Series: The third of J.M.E. McTaggart’s series, void of a temporal component, it focuses solely on the order of events, rather than their passage.
- Duration: Henri Bergson’s view of time, an infinitely indivisible qualitative multiplicity which he describes as pure motion or mobility which is subjective in nature and exists only in the mind of the observer.
- Heterogeneous: Consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents.[1]
- Homogeneous: Of the same or a similar kind or nature or, of uniform structure or composition throughout.[2]
- Juxtaposition: The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side; also : the state of being so placed.[3]
- Qualitative Multiplicity: As defined by Henri Bergson, a group of individual objects which all have identical properties—such as shape, size, etc.—distinguishable only from one another by their position in space that can be easily quantified.
- Quantitative Multiplicity: As defined by Henri Bergson, a group of individual objects that cannot be differentiated based on their location in space but each unit must be identified by its unique properties.
- Time: The measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues. A nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future. The point or period when something occurs. [4]