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This chapter provides a history of the concept of imagination from ancient Greece to contemporary Western world. It introduces the main theoretical framework and authors, who are used in this book to develop the concept of imaginative processes as higher mental function.
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Abduction is a particular form of inference: “Since Peirce’s theorization, scientific knowledge creation is understood as a triadic process of hypothesizing, modeling, and proving [.] Each step is characterized by a leading inferential structure, namely abduction to speculate on new hypotheses, deduction to draw the possible consequences and relationship and induction to prove the hypothesis. A theory can be said to be established when the knowledge achieves a character of generalization” (Tateo 2015, p. 48).
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Dazzani and Silva Filho (2019) systematically explore this idea in commentary 1, with reference to Peirce’s theory of knowledge.
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Tateo, L. (2020). Imaginative Processes and Generalization. In: A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38025-0_5
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