In her monograph-length discussion of the role of imagination in counterfactual reasoning, Ruth Byrne (2005) presents evidence showing that, when people reason using counterfactuals, what is imagined tends to fall into certain typical categories.
It enables us to do all kinds of amazing and uniquely human things: to unravel the human genome, to imagine the future, to fall in love.
After years of no sleep, stress, anger, depression, and every emotion you can imagine, things started to fall apart.
"Before, in my dreams, I had imagined I was going to fall on the clay if I won.
Now that Ryan is proving a more worthy foil than he imagined and things are starting to fall apart around him, Joe is coming unraveled.
It's what we imagine to be perfection in a fallen world, the best of a bad situation.
I can't imagine anyone here actually bothering to fall ill.' 'Don't be too sure.
At the time, I assumed she'd just smoked a bowl and was high, paranoid but I remember putting down the phone at the end of the conversation, laying back in my bed, unable to fall asleep, imagining her staring out the window into darkness with wide eyes.
At the time, I assumed she'd just smoked a bowl and was high, paranoid – but I remember putting down the phone at the end of the conversation, laying back in my bed, unable to fall asleep, imagining her staring out the window into darkness with wide eyes.
Emily never got to fall in love – imagine what she might have written if she had.
