Imagination Imagination is generally held to be the power of forming mental images or other concepts not directly derived from sensation. In spite of the popular usage of the term, the majority of philosophers from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant considered...

Imagination [addendum] Late-twentieth-century discussions of imagination have tended to focus on three sorts of issues. Discussions in the philosophy of mind have focused on the cognitive architecture underlying imagination, and on the ways that...

Phantasia The Greek word phantasia is usually translated "imagination." However, in Greek thought the word always retains a connection with the verb phainomai , "I appear." It can be used to refer both to the psychological...

The process of combining memories of previous experiences with current thoughts and experiences in order to create new ideas or pictures in the...

Imagination is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to sponteneously generate images within one's own mind. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense...