"Now it would be folly to deny that human beings can keep their thoughts secret, can talk to themselves without making any noise, can sketch figures before their mind's eye instead of on pieces of paper."
— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
1992
Metaphor
"Now it would be folly to deny that human beings can keep their thoughts secret, can talk to themselves without making any noise, can sketch figures before their mind's eye instead of on pieces of paper."
Metaphor in Context
Now it would be folly to deny that human beings can keep their thoughts secret, can talk to themselves without making any noise, can sketch figures before their mind's eye instead of on pieces of paper. But the capacity for mental imagery of this kind—visual, audio-motor, and other imagery—is not the intellect, or mind, but a quite different faculty. We may call it 'imagination', in one of the varied senses of that word—the ability to phantasize, to produce mental imagery.
(p. 25)
(p. 25)
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Citation
Anthony Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford UP, 1992).
Date of Entry
03/18/2013
