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Single Idea 11081

[from 'Rationality and Logic' by Robert Hanna, in 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination ]

Full Idea

Three features of imagination are that its objects can be abstract, that it generates spatial images directly available to introspection, and its correctness conditions are not based on either efficacious causation or effective tracking.

Gist of Idea

Imagination grasps abstracta, generates images, and has its own correctness conditions

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 6.6)

Book Reference

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.193


A Reaction

Hanna makes the imagination faculty central to our grasp of his proto-logic.