Imagine a society ruled by a hereditary warrior class (as in B. Williams 1962).
Unfortunately, for behaviorism, it's hard to imagine a more restrictive rule for psychology than one which prohibits hypotheses about representational storage and processing.
It is difficult to imagine a set of rules that could be given to an automatic annotation pipeline to interpret correctly the evolution of this region and apply that interpretation to a newly sequenced genome.
Imagine a past where Britain ruled the world.
Therefore, although we can imagine a void and formulate rules of motion in it, we can only say that a void might have existed if created by God's absolute power, though it does not actually exist anywhere in the universe.
His latest novel Soumission (Submission), just published, imagines a France ruled by an Islamic government.
Inspired by a few brief passages about Ahab's young wife in "Moby-Dick," this novel reworks Melville's whaling adventure from a female, liberal Protestant perspective, imagining a world ruled by compassion rather than obsession.
It is difficult to imagine a set of text-mining rules that could efficiently interpret the range of annotations and assign the most suitable one to a new gene.
I imagine a Pakistan where Malala makes the rules.
It is scarcely possible to imagine so misanthropic a rule being devised by a Frenchman; but so it is.
