Key words: imagination, integrative knowledge, the parts and a whole, verified and validated realities, indeterminate implication in technology, science and humanities How do we know the degree of imagination involved in knowing a reality? This is essentially an epistemological question. This essay discusses first the role of imagination in Polanyi's epistemology since it is used here as the ba...

Although early studies in the fields of education and psychology appreciated the value of imagination, little work has been done pertaining to indicators of imagination. This study synthesized early works on imagination done between 1900 and 2011 to clarify its meaning and identify potential indicators. Then, two groups of samples were collected and validated through exploratory factor analysis...

Correspondence: [email protected] University of Colorado, 292 UCB, Eaton Humanities, Boulder, CO 80309-0292, USA Abstract This paper addresses imagination, focusing on two words, bhāvana and vikalpa, both frequently translated as "imagination," and addresses the connections imagination has with the body, specifically within the context of contemplative practices. Drawing primarily...

Being able to remember physically and emotionally painful events in one's own past may shape behavior, and can create an aversion to a variety of situations. Pain imagination is a related process that may include recall of past experiences, in addition to production of sensory and emotional percepts without external stimuli. This study aimed to understand 1) the central nervous system processes...

288 diff erent from that which is currently being perceived. Essentially, the imagination allows objects to be held in mind and thereby considered in the absence of their immediate presentation via perception. Th is capacity to hold in mind allows the consideration of relations among the objects of imagination and those of direct experience. Of course, the imagination allows the creation of nov...

The visual impact of hyperbolic tessellations has captured artists' imaginations ever since M.C. Escher generated his Circle Limit series in the 1950s. The scaling properties generated by hyperbolic geometry are different to the fractal scaling properties found in nature's scenery. Consequently, prevalent interpretations of Escher's art emphasize the lack of connection with nature's patterns. H...

“Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful, enabling us to interpret and make sense of it, whether from a conventional perspective or from a fresh, original, individual one. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery, visual and otherwise, which is what makes it possible for us to think outside the confi...

Agnosia is defined as a neurologic disorder through which the patient loses the ability to recognize persons, objects, shapes or sounds depending on the sense involved whereas the sense might not be defective and there might not be any memory loss (1). Chronologically, agnosia was first described by Carl Wernicke (1874) and Kuss-maul (1877) who tried to respectively explain receptive aphasia an...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...