This article is an attempt to situate imagination within consciousness complete with its own pre-cognitive, cognitive, and meta-cognitive domains. In the first sections we briefly review traditional philosophical and psychological conceptions of the imagination. The majority have viewed perception and imagination as separate faculties, performing distinct functions. A return to a phenomenologic...

People rarely articulate explicitly what a native speaker of a language is already assumed to know. So to acquire the stereotypical knowledge that underpins much of what is said in a given culture, one must look to what is implied by language rather than what is overtly stated. Similes are a convenient vehicle for this kind of knowledge, insofar as they mark out the most salient aspects of the ...

Imagination as a cause of memory distortion has generated much recent interest. Researchers have demonstrated that memories for both childhood events and more recent actions are influenced by imagination (Garry, Manning, Loftus, & Sherman, 1996; Goff & Roediger, 1998). Typically, confidence in the occurrence of fictitious events increases after those events have been imagined— a phenomenon call...

The research claims the need for paradigmatic changes in technological foundations of programming, which involve a transition from an individual-subjective programming paradigm to intersubjective one. proposed is based on understanding as activity conditioned by program likeness, and subject-oriented complementarity its active passive forms. To implement such transition, objectification active-...

In this paper, we argue that the metaphor form of a comparison (i.e., a topic-vehicle pair) is preferred over, and more comprehensible than, the simile form when the interpretive diversity for that comparison is high. Interpretive diversity refers to the richness of the figurative meaning of a comparison; it is high to the extent that more features or properties are related to the figurative me...

Contrary to the popular imagination of Kerala as a secular, rational left bastion, state is witnessing Sangh Parivar’s active presence in domain temples and everyday culture. This study attempts examine anxiety Rashtriya Swayamsevak its sympathisers about ‘true’ knowledge on temple culture, their efforts teach Brahmanical rituals other forms worship such srividya kuladevathas. I argue that Pari...