Ep. 124: World in the Mind
Young Heretics
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The Mental Image Is Not Like the Reality
What we think or say can be quite different from what we imagine. It is doubtful whether any one except an extreme visualist, ever has the mental images which are particularly like the things he is thinking about. In these examples, the mental image is not only unlike the reality, but is known to be unlike it at least after a moment's reflection. And indeed, this is what aristotle means in part when he says that, you know, thinking is not phantasia... and yet it never occurs without pantasia. We always use these kind of inadequate mental pictures, or these stand in for these big experiences that we have in the world that are ineffable and beyond full inc
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