Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Modern Philological and Methodological Studies;Issues and Prospects, Kharkiv, Ukrayna, 18 - 19 Mayıs 2022, sa.2022, ss.26-30
Bergson in his ―Introduction to Metaphysics‖ believes that there are two types of
knowing: knowing partially and knowing absolutely. The first type is the way of
analysis, the second type, knowing abolutely can be grouped as the way of intuition,
which is totally not related to any stance. It follows that an absolute can only be given
in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the
sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to
coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on
the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known,
that is, common to that object and to others. (Bergson, 2007, p.189). Bergon uses
vivid metaphors to distinguish these two types of knowledge. One is seeing all the
photographs of a city and making sense of the city through combining all these
different angles where as the knowledge by intuition is compared to walking along
the streets of the city. He believes that the activity or the method of analysis ―not only
disregards the uniqueness and the unity of an object, but also can represent only some
parts of the object by symbolization, and hence misrepresents it by missing out on the
object itself‖ (Koçkan, 2014, p.19).