Assertion: imagination | /r/HasProperty | the faculty
Facets:
value: in humans
type: OTHER
value: in most other animals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Imagination is the faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses.
text: Early Modern predecessors also thought that the imagination is a faculty by which we make a distinctive kind of transition among ideas: habituated, or associative, transitions.
text: I want to say, from my perch on George MacDonald’s shoulders, that imagination is the faculty by which God gives created forms to his thoughts and literary forms to his words.
text: I now want to say that imagination is the faculty that wakes us up to that new reality and helps us to stay awake.
text: The suggestion, then, is that imagination is a faculty in humans and most other animals which produces, stores, and recalls the images used in a variety of cognitive activities, including those which motivate and guide action (De Anima iii 3, 429a4–7, De Memoria 1, 450a22–25).