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Imagination
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According to a tradition derived from Aristotle, the imagination (Greek
phantasia; Latin:
imaginatio) is a faculty of knowledge intermediary between the senses and the intellect or rational intelligence. Together with the “common sense” (
to krinon or
sensus communis) and the memory it belongs to the so-called “interior senses”; but one also sometimes encounters it as equivalent to these different senses taken together. Aristotle says that
phantasia derives from φῶς (light, or glow) and is primarily visually oriented. Its function is to transform sensory impre…
