Authors: Ningombam Bupenda Meitei
The article is non-expository in nature in which the proposed thesis is “Artistic imagination needs more understanding than scientific imagination.” which could also be reframed as ‘understanding needed for artistic imagination is more than understanding needed for scientific imagination’ and the claim to the proposition is to be supported by Neo-Kantian philosopher of science and advocate of symbolism Ernst Cassirer’s An Essay on Man with a special reference to Art (IX) and Science (XI) in the book and other arguments with examples. The premise of the debate requires the definition or meaning of imagination or what does imagination refer to if it could have a point of reference but in a passage of searching its definition, a historical problem is encountered as the word ‘imagination’ etymologically derived from Latin word imaginatio is used by Aristotle as phantasia in Greek forming fantasy ,but an usual exchange between imagination and fancy has been re-thought and later, it is considered that imagination is not imaging in terms of mental pictures totally and not also merely fantasizing per se but rather could be creating, imagining neither in a logical rational nor irrational way but ‘a’ rational manner which is where it is difficult to demarcate the boundary of definition for imagination and the definition has been made more complex in modern days in philosophy of mind and neurological sciences due to the notion of neurological dynamics of imagination also.
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