Imagination, in modern philosophy

Jonathan Cottrell

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In the modern philosophical period, the imagination (sometimes called the ‘fancy’) is standardly seen as a faculty for having mental images, and for making non-rational, associative transitions among such images.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRoutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN (Electronic)9780415250696
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Publication statusPublished - 2017

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