Imagination

In John Lachs & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Routledge (2007)
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Imagination is a capacity of internal visualization, concept creation and manipulation not directly dependent upon sensation. Imagination is associated with a range of phenomena: mental imagery, fancy, inventiveness, insight, counterfactual reasoning, pretence, simulation and conceivability.

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