Key words: imagination, integrative knowledge, the parts and a whole, verified and validated realities, indeterminate implication in technology, science and humanities How do we know the degree of imagination involved in knowing a reality? This is essentially an epistemological question. This essay discusses first the role of imagination in Polanyi's epistemology since it is used here as the ba...

this paper tends to investigate immorality written by andre gide, famous french writer of the 20th century. this research studies imagines of soil element in the immorality which is seen frequently in reverie of characters in this book. we show how author’s point of view and imagination result in speculations subject to this element, creating images to show internal spiritualities of characters...

“Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful, enabling us to interpret and make sense of it, whether from a conventional perspective or from a fresh, original, individual one. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery, visual and otherwise, which is what makes it possible for us to think outside the confi...

Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ability of an embodied agent to simulate its own behaviors, predict their sensory-based consequences, and extract behavioural benefit from doing so. We identify five key components of architectures for functional imagina...

There are very few jokes about sociologists. This is frustrating for the sociologists, especially if they compare themselves with their more favored second cousins, the psychologists, who have pretty much taken over that sector of American humor that used to be occupied by clergymen. A psychologist, introduced as such at a party, at once finds himself the object of considerable attention and un...