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| Imagination, philosophy: imaginations are mental representations of non-present situations, events, states, sensory perceptions, experiences with certain characteristics, tones, sound sequences, sounds, noises, voices, smells, heat, coldness etc. The imagination of something undefined is not possible. Understanding a sentence can create an idea of the corresponding situation or image. See also representations past, future, mental states._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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David Hume on Imagination - Dictionary of Arguments
I 19 Imagination/Hume: principle: each imagination originates from a corresponding impression. I 69 Imagination/representation/Hume: the idea does not represent, it is a rule, a scheme, a design rule. >Sensory impression, >Principles/Hume, >Representation, >Fiction. I 96 Imagination/Hume: if we apply the corrective rules, we get a contradiction between the principles of the imagination and those of reason. This is where the imagination opposes for the first time as a world principle to correction because the fiction has become a principle, it cannot be corrected by the reflection. the is delirious mind. >Reason/Hume. I 104 Imagination/Hume: imagination is not an ability or organizing principle. Instead: it is a totality, inventory. >Totality. --- Vaihinger 152 ff Ideas/Hume: one-sided negatively: imagination corresponds to fictions. >Ideas/Hume, >Fictions/Hume. Ideas/Kant: ideas have cognitive value, because only from these subjective ideas results the objective world for us. >Ideas Kant. --- McGinn II 58 Identity/Hume: absolutely logical: according to that (=imagination) we can have no good idea about the identity of material objects over time, nor about the self or causal necessity. >Mind/Hume._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
D. Hume I Gilles Delueze David Hume, Frankfurt 1997 (Frankreich 1953,1988) II Norbert Hoerster Hume: Existenz und Eigenschaften Gottes aus Speck(Hg) Grundprobleme der großen Philosophen der Neuzeit I Göttingen, 1997 McGinn I Colin McGinn Problems in Philosophy. The Limits of Inquiry, Cambridge/MA 1993 German Edition: Die Grenzen vernünftigen Fragens Stuttgart 1996 McGinn II C. McGinn The Mysteriouy Flame. Conscious Minds in a Material World, New York 1999 German Edition: Wie kommt der Geist in die Materie? München 2001 |
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