IMAGINATION  想像

THINK so as to HAVE OR PRODUCE a PICTURE in one's MIND of an ABSENT OBJECT OR SITUATION.
IMAGINATION
Antonym
  • REALITYEXIST and NOT ONLY BE IMAGINED.
    Hypernym
    • THINKACT USING ONLY the MIND.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
          • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
    Hyponym
    • DREAM　IMAGINE WHILE SLEEPING.
      • NIGHTMARE　DREAM which CAUSES THE DREAMER TO BECOME INTENSELY FRIGHTENED.
    • ANTHROPOMORPHIC　IMAGINE THINGS TO HAVE HUMAN FEATURES.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      The poetic imagination, German Phantasie, as a positive force was surely recognised in traditional China as an important part of poetic talent. The related notions that seems to be fairly current in China is that of "mere imaginings, sheer phantasy", and that of 以為 "unjustified belief", but even these still needs close investigation. It is interesting how rarely one is tempted to use words like "imagination" in translating ancient Chinese texts. This conceptual area badly needs careful study also in pre-Buddhist China. Unfortunately, I have not so far been able to get a handle on this phenomenon. This concept is directly relevant to many literary notions such as that of fiction.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      想像

      設想

      空想

      玄想

      懸想

      虛懸

      幻想

      白日作夢

      胡思亂想

      想入非非

      痴心妄想

      異想天開

      • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 443

        FANCY

      • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 931

      • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 120

        FANTASIA, FANTASMA

        216. Breviter haec in Codice Vaticano 3321: Inter phantasia et phantasma quid interest? Phantasia incognitarum rerum ex cognitis conjectura; phantasma rerum incognitio cognitarum. [AREV.]

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        216. Inter Phantasiam et phantasma. Phantasia est imago alicujus corporis visa, et cogitando postea in animo figurata, ut puta, avi vel patris species, quem aliquando vidimus, ac dum cogitando memoramus, phantasiam dicimus. Phantasma vero est ex imagine [col. 32C] cognita, aliqua, quam vidimus, imago formata, ut puta, species avi quem nunquam vidisse meminimus; sed tamen ejus species non memoria, sed motu animi figuratur. De cognitis ergo speciebus memoria collecta, phantasia est; de incognitis species animo figurata, phantasma. Nam figurata phantasmata nihil aliud sunt quam de specie corporis, corporeo sensu abstracta; figmentoque memoriae, ut accepta sunt, vel partiri, vel multiplicare, vel contrahere, vel distendere, vel ordinare, vel turbare, vel quidlibet figurare cogitando facillimum est, sed, cum verum quaeritur, cavere et vitare difficile. Item phantasia est incognitarum rerum ex cognitis conjectura, phantasma vero rerum incognitio cognitarum.

      • Die Phantasie ( LUCKA 1908) p.

      • Die kuenstlerische Phantasie. In der Formgebung der Dichtkunst, Malerei und Musik. ( NUSSBERGER 1935) p.

      • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.1824

      • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 2.348

        EINBILDUNG; EINBILDUNGSKRAFT

      • Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 6.927

      • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

        IMAGINATION

      • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 4.778

      • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 2.88

      • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 1.208

        ANSCHAUUNG

      • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 2.352:239

        IMAGINER.S'IMAGINER

      • Fantasien ( LOECHEN 1917) p.

      • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

      • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 425

      Words

      思議  sī yì OC: snɯ ŋrals MC: sɨ ŋiɛ 2 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNpassivebe imagined; be articulated to onself
      想  xiǎng OC: sqaŋʔ MC: si̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • viactimagine things
      想像  xiǎng xiàng OC: sqaŋʔ sɢlaŋʔ MC: si̯ɐŋ zi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNimagine
      為象  wéi xiàng OC: ɢʷal sɢlaŋʔ MC: ɦiɛ zi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNpassivebe imagined
      圖  tú OC: daa MC: duo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoSpicture to oneself that S> imagine that S

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