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Descartes: Imagination
Title: Descartes: Imagination
Category: History / Asian History
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Descartes: Imagination
Imagination is traditionally defined as the mental capacity for experiencing, constructing, or manipulating mental imagery. It is the image of something that is neither "perceived as real nor present to the sense." Imagination is also generally regarded as responsible for fantasy, inventiveness, and creative, original, and insightful thought. Sometimes, it also accounts for a much wider range of mental activities dealing with the "non-actual", such as supposing, pretending, thinking of possibilities, and even being mistaken. …showed first 75 words of 2597 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2597 total…Aristotle, De Anima, 431a 15-20
Classics of Western Philosophy, Hackett Publishing Co, Inc. 1999
Classics of Western Philosophy, Hackett Publishing Co, Inc. 1999
Information in the paragraph comes from Descartes, Treatise On Man, 1644
Descartes Selected Philosophical Writings, Meditation 1, p.76
Replies 5, AT 7:358-59
Descartes Selected Philosophical Writings, Meditation 1, p.83
Descartes Selected Philosophical Writings, Meditation 1, p.84-85
Descartes, René. Philosophical Letters. Trans. Anthony Kenny. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1970.
Professor Samet, response to comments on webCT, October 2nd, 2000
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