How Imagination Gives Rise To Knowledge
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چکیده
A long and well-established philosophical tradition assigns the imagination a central role in the justification of our modal beliefs. Just as perceiving a state of affairs justifies us in believing that it is actual, imagining a state of affairs is thought to justify us in believing that it is possible. This tradition has its fair share of opponents, and even among its adherents there is by no means a clear consensus about how and why imagination can play this justificatory role. But there does seem to be widespread agreement about at least the following claim: Whatever justificatory power the imagination may have is limited to the modal sphere. Outside of the domain of modal epistemology, the imagination is, as Brian O’Shaughnessy puts it, “out of the cognitive circuit.” (O’Shaughnessy 2000, 345)
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