Timeline for What is the difference between conceivability and imaginability?
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| Nov 20 at 5:38 | comment | converted from answer | Amir Kahrom | Conceivable: Based on coherence and logical possibility. Imaginable: Based on the ability to form sensory or mental representations. | |
| Nov 17 at 23:40 | answer | added | destituent | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 15 at 20:37 | vote | accept | user107952 | ||
| Nov 15 at 15:28 | answer | added | Hokon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 14 at 23:36 | comment | added | 8Mad0Manc8 | I cannot give you any references but conceivable is determined by a notion of the present state and a plausible prediction of a subsequent state from that state imaginable is a possible future state that is significantly more certain than one which is conceivable from a present state, although they are entangled just like chalk and cheese. Do you like cheese and onion or do you like chalk and cheese its complicated philosophical question with a question like this, I always follow the decision of my stomach | |
| Nov 14 at 23:04 | comment | added | Double Knot | A much relevant and hotly debated philosophical question could well be conceivability vs possibility due to Kripke's famous counterexample of necessary a posterior such as 'water is H2O'... | |
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| Nov 14 at 22:14 | comment | added | David Gudeman | Please give some examples where you have seen these two terms opposed and explain why you didn't find the given explanation from those examples clear. | |
| Nov 14 at 22:03 | comment | added | Conifold | Maverick Philosopher:"To imagine X is to form a mental image of X... Not all imagining is visual. To conceive X is to think X. To say that X is conceivable is to say that someone can think it, that is, has the ability to make it an object of thought. To conceive is to conceptualize coherently, to imagine is to attach some visual or other intuitive details." Also, PhilPapers references | |
| Nov 14 at 21:58 | comment | added | keshlam | This feels like another question better directed to a dictionary, unless you can provide us with examples of where you think the difference matters. | |
| Nov 14 at 21:05 | history | asked | user107952 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |