In the next week, it is not a wild leap of logic to imagine Wayne Rooney will move alongside Sir Bobby Charlton as England's highest scorer, or maybe even make the honour exclusively his own.
Inasmuch as Althusser admits in this piece that Marx never fully abandoned Hegel's logic, the concept of human alienation, or the idea that history has a goal, the inventory Althusser offers can be seen as a positive response to the charge that he had ignored Marx's explicit statements in order to imagine for Marx a consistent and "true" philosophy.
Prohibition of Listed Options in Retirement Accounts: It's hard to imagine the logic of this rule, since options provide investors with the ability to protect their gains and limit their losses in their investment accounts.
The Pape thesis explains why America would face more suicide attacks overseas than domestically, but in a nation with so many immigrant communities it's easy to imagine the logic of suicide terrorism taking hold among groups with ties to Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Palestine in ways that happily haven't actually happened.
Historically, providing "world" models for modal logic was also useful for bringing out dimensions of variation among modal logics: by putting various constraints on the accessibility relation, the behaviour of the necessity and possibility operators could be varied in ways it was hard to imagine before possessing the device of models.
In his Logic, Condillac illustrated this point by asking his readers to imagine a group of people who travel by night to a chateau situated on a high point before a vast panorama of fields, mountains, cities, towns, and forests.
I tried to imagine intercourse in this bed; I managed to imagine it fairly well.
Crucially, participants have to imagine themselves in the scenarios presented.
Try to imagine a Prince in shining armour, now imagine him sparking up a fag.
If either of us has any resources of our own that the other might want, this murderous logic will take hold long before we are so silly as to imagine that we could ever actually get as far as making deals to help one another build houses in the first place.
