In the case of science, for example, is it possible to actively imagine the distance between the nucleus of an atom and one of its valence electrons or the distance between a galaxy’s star and one of its planets, or must we use a “metaphoric” model in order to cognize these ideas? Feel free to elaborate with examples that you feel are pertinent or relevant to the question.
“Atoms, according to Lucretius, are conceivable, but they are no more imaginable than they are perceptible. If we need images to think of them, we must use imagery in a metaphorical way, picturing the atom as the smallest particle imaginable—only more so! To the objection that there must be imageless thought if we can think of incorporeal beings, if which there can be no images or phantasms, Aquinas replies that we do so ‘by comparison with sensible bodies of which there are phantasms.’”
Please list ANY sources (fiction, nonfiction, film, music, etc.) you know that discuss Memory and Imagination. Thank you!
2006-09-27
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