And what exactly does that sound like?
Of course that is a good example of Bergsson's point as the coated
fruit is now thought of as a very different 'kind' of thing,
following the event of the cow defecating over them. However, I would
have to respond that they are essentially still apples and oranges
and that a second event, a good hosing, restores their previous
character. It is our perception of the object that has changed rather
than the object itself which is still there, being fruity, under a
layer of bovine excrement. Thus they have not been transmogrified in
any particular way. And then of course if left in place long enough
they will rot, a change of state characterised by no single
catastrophic event but rather by a slow process.
In fact I don't think I can accept Bergsson's propostion that time is
divided at all - it seems to be to be a process in which events are
simply periods of obvious or sudden change, shifts in the speed of
the essential and continual mutability.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/11/2007, at 8:30 AM, Rand E wrote:
>
> Sounds like apples and oranges, covered by cow flop
> Rand E.
>
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> Yes of course, but what do you think of the proposition? :-)
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/11/2007, at 1:42 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>
>>> Y'know, you just gotta love this place!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:39 AM, John Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Henri Bergson, extending the investigations undertaken by G.F.B.
>>>> Riemann, expressed the concept of duration in terms of the
>>>> multiplicity which most characterizes it. While space divides by
>>>> degree - with two extensions of measure resulting when one
>>>> extension is divided - time divides in kind: an event which
>>>> separates two durations distinguishes the before from the after as
>>>> different kinds of things.
>>
>>
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