ABSTRACT
For any proper understanding of Bergson's thought, it is necessary to grasp his views regarding Time, for they are fundamental factors in his philosophy and serve to distinguish it specially from that of previous thinkers. Time is falsely assumed to have just as much reality for a living being as for an hour-glass. The distinction between the false Time and true Time may be regarded as a distinction between mathematical Time and living Time, or between abstract and concrete Time. An initial difficulty meets us in giving a definite name to the Time which Bergson regards as real, opposed to the spatial falsity, masquerading as Time, whose true colours he has revealed. This living, concrete Time is that true Time of which Bergson endeavours to give us a conception as la durée. He has criticized the abstract mathematical Time, his attack having been made to open up the way for a treatment of what he really considers Time to be.
