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When an art historian announces a paper about imagination, perhaps one is inclined to expect painted paradises that project some lofty and harmonious state of being. Today one generally conceives of imagination as the capacity to transcend realities, a power which, once realized, may fulfill all expectations of happiness.
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Warnke, M. (1992). Works of the Imagination. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) The Scientific Enterprise. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 146. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2688-5_5
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