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Imagination

Imagination is the representation of sensations or physical objects in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. Often described as forming pictures in the mind, it is commonly equated with mental imagery, though imaginary experiences do not have to be purely visual, and can include other sensory experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Imaginings…

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Moral imagination

Artificial imagination

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Imagination

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Triples257
Avg. degree1.99
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Imagination

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related to Further reading · 57
Imagination → Berghahn, Byrne, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Coincidence, Culture, Dreams, Encyclopædia Britannica, English, Envisioning Eden, Florence UP, Global Studies, Harper Colophon Books, How People Create Alternatives, Hugh, Identities, Imaginal Dialogues, Invisible Guests, Italian
related to Enlightenment and thereafter · 22
Imagination → Age, Alembert, By, Critique, Diderot, Discours Préliminaire, Einbildungskraft, Encyclopedia, Enlightenment, Fine Arts, French, German, Immanuel Kant, In Preliminary Discourse, Kant, Kant's, Kritik, Productive, Pure Reason, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
see also · 16
Imagination → Age, Creative, Creatives, Entity, Forming, Imaginary, Information AgeImagination, Lacanian, Mental, Philosophy, Proposed, Purposeful, Resemblance, Set, Term, Type
related to Mental health · 15
Imagination → By, Disruptions, Goal-directed, However, Maladaptive, MDD, One, PTSD, Research, Similarly, SSDs, These, This, Unlike, Various
related to Evolutionary theory · 14
Imagination → After, Cognitive, Great Leap Forward, Mode One, Mode Two, Phylogenetic, Prefrontal, Progress, REM, REM-sleep, Spontaneous, The, This, Upper Paleolithic Revolution
related to External links · 14
Imagination → BBCImagination, Cognition, Consciousness, Historical ApproachesTwo-Factor Imagination Scale, In Our Time, Mental Imagery, Open Directory Project, Philosophical, Scientific, TED-Ed, The, Wikimedia CommonsImagination, Wiktionary Media, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Renaissance and early modern · 14
Imagination → Cervantes, Don Quixote, Early, Ficino, Huarte's, Instead, Juan Huarte, Marsilio Ficino, Miguel, Nevertheless, San Juan, Spanish, The Renaissance, This
related to Middle Ages · 10
Imagination → An, Chaucer's, He, In, Law's Tale, Men, Middle Ages, The Canterbury Tales, The Man, This
related to Cognitive development in children · 7
Imagination → Children, EF, Furthermore, It, Similarly, Studies, This
related to Cross-cultural · 7
Imagination → Buddha's, Buddha-fields, Buddhas, In Buddhist, In Zhuang Zi's Taoism, It, Pure Lands

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mental memory mind images also imagery process perception faculty sense play development cognitive visual new ideas brain often artificial experiences

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Imaginationis arepresentation of sensations or physical objects in the mind without any immediate input of the senses0.90text
Imaginationis aprocess of developing theories and ideas based on the functioning of the mind through a creative division0.90text
Imaginationis acognitive process in mental functioning0.90text
Imaginationis acentral concept are Kendall Walton0.90text
fairy talesinstance ofwherein imagination is expressed through stories and writings0.80text
fantasiesinstance ofwherein imagination is expressed through stories and writings0.80text
and science fictioninstance ofwherein imagination is expressed through stories and writings0.80text
religioninstance ofthe concept of imagination encompassed domains0.80text
literatureinstance ofthe concept of imagination encompassed domains0.80text
artworkinstance ofthe concept of imagination encompassed domains0.80text
and notablyinstance ofthe concept of imagination encompassed domains0.80text
poetryinstance ofthe concept of imagination encompassed domains0.80text

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