IMAGINATION    想像

THINK so as to HAVE OR PRODUCE a PICTURE in one's MIND of an ABSENT OBJECT OR SITUATION.
IMAGINATION
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
Hyponym
  • DREAM　IMAGINE WHILE SLEEPING. (anc: 14/0, child: 1)
  • ANTHROPOMORPHIC　IMAGINE THINGS TO HAVE HUMAN FEATURES. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • REALITYEXIST and NOT ONLY BE IMAGINED.
Hypernym
  • THINK　ACT USING ONLY the MIND. (anc: 12/0, child: 12)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • 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 (5 items)

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