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Is considering true possibilities a truly explanatory principle for imaginative thought?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2008

Thomas B. Ward
Thomas B. Ward
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Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. [email protected]://bama.ua.edu/~tward
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Abstract

Byrne (2005) demonstrates that reasoning and imagination are logical and governed by the same processing principles. In extending those principles to other forms of imaginative functioning, however, problems arise. The meaning of “true possibility” is stretched, and the causal role of the principles is not well established. Nevertheless, consideration of the extent to which ordinary cognitive processes govern creative functioning is valuable.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 468 - 469
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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