Knowing by Imagining
Knowing by Imagining
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想象而知
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2016
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T. Williamson
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1.想象往往与知道形成鲜明对比。当你对某事一无所知时，你不得不想象它。知识与事实打交道，想象与虚构打交道。这篇论文概述了一种思考想象力的方法，这种刻板印象的对比完全具有误导性。想象远不是知道的对立面，它的基本功能是提供一种获得知识的手段--主要不是我们希望从伟大的小说作品中获得的那种深奥、难以捉摸的知识，而是更平凡、更广泛、具有直接实际意义的事情的知识。想象和认知的同化是一张牌，既可以用于现实主义目的，也可以用于理想主义目的。理想主义者想要将我们对知识的概念转变为我们对想象的概念：不知何故，甚至知道在小说中也有交易。相比之下，现实主义者希望将我们的想象概念转变为我们的知晓概念：以某种方式甚至想象与事实打交道。这篇论文的精神是坚定的现实主义。它的目的更多的是重新思考想象力，而不是重新思考知识。因此，它不是
1. Imagining is often contrasted with knowing. When you know nothing about something, you have to imagine it instead. Knowledge deals in facts, imagination in fictions. This paper sketches a way of thinking about the imagination on which that stereotypical contrast is utterly misleading. Far from being the opposite of knowing, imagining has the basic function of providing a means to knowledge — and not primarily to knowledge of the deep, elusive sort that we may hope to gain from great works of fiction, but knowledge of far more mundane, widespread matters of immediate practical relevance. The assimilation of imagining and knowing is a card that can be played for either realist or idealist ends. The idealist wants to shift our conception of knowing towards our conception of imagining: somehow even knowing deals in fictions. By contrast, the realist wants to shift our conception of imagining towards our conception of knowing: somehow even imagining deals in facts. The spirit of this paper is firmly realist. It aims more to rethink imagination than to rethink knowledge. Consequently, it is not