Élan Vital- The Force of Life

The term was coined by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and at its roots was an attempt to understand the selections of lifeless objects and those of having an essence of life. Bergson thought that if by discovering and manipulating the Élan Vital and presenting an inanimate object with it along with an electric current, life might be possible. Alas, simple ignorance of anatomy to infinitesimal protons and neutrons is firstly a problem of any time period but one that must be gone through to slowly pick at the truth of the universe. Plus, to make matters worse, do we really know what makes us alive?




Also Mary Shelley's used vitalism ( Élan Vital would be the "life spark" and vitalism would be the doctrine to understand it) in her The Night that Birthed Frankenstein among other of her famous novels.

Word of the Week "Paragon"

My Use
 
 -Well this has quickly become one of my favorite words for it lets you take a specific entity and put it atop everything else in its category. With that it lends a hand in giving a nice complement to the topic.

Paragon- in short, paragon, is the model for excellence.


"My grandmothers cooking is and always will be a paragon of flavors waiting anxiously for my return to once again devour it."

Word of the Week "Lethologica"

Everyone, at least to my knowledge, has felt the sensation of having a word on the tip of their tongue and against all attempts cannot remember it. This state of being is referred to as; Lethologica.

Now you have another word that you can forgot in the instant you cannot remember another.

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I must add here something I learned by a linguist who I more than admire, Michel Thomas. (If you happen to be wanting to learn a new language I strongly encourage to to check his audio series out.) I later put it into my own words and kept it in my own life.

What you know is stored in memory and is knowledge; As such, there is no reason to worry about forgetting.

Vocabulary Word of the Week; Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance-  1.the supernatural power of seeing objects or actions removed in space or  time from natural viewing  2. quick, intuitive knowledge of things and people; sagacity.

Closer Look-    The  two perceptions of clairvoyance are: Firstly, that you can obtain information about a person, object, location, occurrences, from abnormal "senses" beyond the human five (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste) Second, you have acute intuition of objects and other people. The latter of the two presents an ability based on preexisting knowledge whereas the counter acts as a supernatural agent.

(Please note all definition were "copied" from (Dictionary.reference.com) to provide adequate results.)