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| | Introduction to the Science and Philosophy of Mental Imagery (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Ryle thus vigorously attacked the notion of a mental image as a "picture in the mind", and suggested instead that what people call "imagining", "picturing in the mind's eye", and so forth, would be better understood as akin to pretending (to oneself) to see something. |
 | | Ryle also questioned whether we really have a coherent, unitary concept of imagination, and it remains controversial whether imagery is really relevant to other notions traditionally associated with imagination, such as creativity (White, 1990; Brann, 1991; Thomas, 1997b, 1999). |
 | | Although neither Sartre nor Ryle seems to have intended to deny the reality of quasi-perceptual experience, this may not always have been clear to their audience, and their work surely contributed further to the decline of interest in imagery in both analytical and phenomenological traditions. |
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