ENGL 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Flashlight, Alethic Modality, Verstehen

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Creative imagination at play when we make art works. Creativity: the kind of making that involves flair in producing something which is original (saliently new) and which has considerable value . Further premise than just something that happens in your head. *propositional imagining: framing or formulating propositions that have a certain content and that have a certain force (alethic value). *objectual imagining (entertain a concept of x): not necessarily in a linguistically form, can have other modes of imagining an object if we can"t name it. Sensory: we can imagine the touch of a vampire. Phenomenal (egocentric: imagining what it would feel like to experience sthg. *dramatic imagining (imagining what it"s like to be in someone"s situation; verstehen): simulating how the world looks from their perspective. The imagination suspends the alethic interest: it is not focusing primarily (or even not at all) on whether or not what we"re imagining is actually true. Force: attitude you take toward a certain sentence.

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