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oapen-20.500.12657-505992023-01-31T18:35:58Z Imaginative Animals Oliveri, Lucia Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy Through the reconstruction of Leibniz's theory of the degrees of knowledge, this book investigates and explores the intrinsic relationship of imagination with space and time. The inquiry into this relationship defines the logic of imagination that characterizes both human and non-human animals, albeit differently, making them two different species of imaginative animals. Lucia Oliveri explains how the emergence of language in human animals goes hand in hand with the emergence of thought and a different form of rationality constituted by logical inferences based on identity and contradiction, principles that are out of reach of the imagination. The book concludes that the presence of innate principles in human animals transforms the way in which they sense-perceive the world, thereby constantly increasing the distinction between human and non-human animals. 2021-09-17T05:30:54Z 2021-09-17T05:30:54Z 2021 book 9783515130516 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50599 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Franz Steiner Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515130516 https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515130516 70604e5f-7706-4b1d-a15e-c9b6bb80fb28 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783515130516 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Franz Steiner Verlag Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Through the reconstruction of Leibniz's theory of the degrees of knowledge, this book investigates and explores the intrinsic relationship of imagination with space and time. The inquiry into this relationship defines the logic of imagination that characterizes both human and non-human animals, albeit differently, making them two different species of imaginative animals. Lucia Oliveri explains how the emergence of language in human animals goes hand in hand with the emergence of thought and a different form of rationality constituted by logical inferences based on identity and contradiction, principles that are out of reach of the imagination. The book concludes that the presence of innate principles in human animals transforms the way in which they sense-perceive the world, thereby constantly increasing the distinction between human and non-human animals.
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