On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:16:46 -0400 (EDT) Karen Bardsley
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> Should we perhaps coin another term such as "visual
> imaginings" that can refer the imagination of the physical appearance of
> something without any reference at all to an observer? Would such an act of
> imagination be possible?
But hasn't Gregory Currie already done this, with his term 'impersonal
imagining' (in _Image and Mind_)? He defines 'personal imagining' in
terms of a person imagining him or herself visually involved in the
action and events, and 'impersonal imagining' in terms of a person
imagining things happening or occuring, but without imagining him or
herself in relation to them. Personal imagining is therefore 'deictic'
(what Currie calls the Participation Thesis), and impersonal imagining
is non-deictic. (Jan Simons recently wrote a long and detailed review
of Currie's book for this list, so that is probably the best place to
find out more, before tackling Currie's book directly.)
Warren Buckland
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