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The Imagination as the Origin of Science

Rupture and Continuity with the Quotidian Lifeworld

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 52))

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This discussion is confined to the case of the empirical sciences. Consequently, we exclude the case of the formal sciences.

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Flores H., L. (1998). The Imagination as the Origin of Science. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition. Analecta Husserliana, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2604-7_23

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