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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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H. Maturana on Imagination - Dictionary of Arguments
I 88 Example: two houses are built by two groups, one group has a plan, the other only has words like "house", "pipes", etc. The final result is the same for both groups. However, the second group has no idea of the house. For an observer, the second house lies only in his cognitive house, the characteristics of the house lie also only in his cognitive realm, the first also in the cognitive realm of the workers. Coding: is different in both cases: in the first case the house is coded by the book with the instructions, in the second case a process. One would never find any isomorphism with the description in these codes. >Isomorphism, >Description/Maturana, >Code, >Description levels, >Process/Flux._____________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. |
Maturana I Umberto Maturana Biologie der Realität Frankfurt 2000 |