Concluding Remarks: The World of Laplace and the World of Bergson

Abstract

We have now to indicate briefly how the paradoxical structure of the microphysical — and microchronical — world is related to the matter of our daily experience as well as to the matter of classical physics which, according to the expressive abbreviative formula of Edouard le Roy, is “a more refined common sense, a more penetrating sensory perception (un sens commun plus affiné, une perception plus aigüe)”.¹ Implicitly, and in part even explicitly, this has been discussed before. All that I am going to do here is systematically restate and summarize it.