Bergsonianism | GPTKB v2

All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bergsonism	6
Bergsonianism canonical	1
intuition (Bergson)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T644082 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bergsonianism
Context triple: [Georges Sorel, movement, Bergsonianism]

A. Process and Reality
Process and Reality is Alfred North Whitehead’s seminal philosophical work that lays out his influential process philosophy and metaphysical system of “process thought.”
B. Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
C. History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
D. The Concept of Nature
The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
E. Berserker hypothesis
The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bergsonianism
Target entity description: Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.

A. Process and Reality
Process and Reality is Alfred North Whitehead’s seminal philosophical work that lays out his influential process philosophy and metaphysical system of “process thought.”
B. Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
C. History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
D. The Concept of Nature
The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
E. Berserker hypothesis
The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	philosophical movement ⓘ
associatedWith	Henri Bergson ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Creative Evolution" Matter and Memory ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Matter and Memory" The Two Sources of Morality and Religion ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" Time and Free Will ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Time and Free Will"
basedOn	the philosophy of Henri Bergson ⓘ
centralIdea	life is characterized by an élan vital or creative evolution ⓘ reality is better grasped by intuition than by abstract intellect ⓘ time is lived as duration rather than as measurable clock time ⓘ
emergedInCentury	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ
emphasizes	continuous becoming ⓘ creativity in nature ⓘ immediacy of lived experience ⓘ
hasCoreConcept	creative evolution ⓘ duration ⓘ intuition ⓘ
hasViewOn	free will as real and irreducible ⓘ memory as central to consciousness ⓘ novelty as an ontological feature of reality ⓘ
historicalContext	French Third Republic ⓘ surface form: Third Republic France fin de siècle culture ⓘ
influenced	Alfred North Whitehead ⓘ European philosophy ⓘ French Catholic thought in the early 20th century ⓘ French philosophy ⓘ Spiritualism ⓘ surface form: French spiritualism French syndicalism ⓘ Georges Sorel ⓘ Georges Sorel’s theory of myth ⓘ Georges Sorel’s theory of violence ⓘ Gilles Deleuze ⓘ Marcel Proust ⓘ Nicolai Hartmann ⓘ William James ⓘ existentialism ⓘ literary modernism ⓘ modernism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ process philosophy ⓘ vitalism ⓘ
namedAfter	Henri Bergson ⓘ
opposes	mechanistic determinism ⓘ reductive scientism ⓘ
relatedTo	anti-positivist movements ⓘ intuitionism in ethics and epistemology ⓘ vitalist biology debates ⓘ

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