Thought experiments involve imaginary scenarios in which readers are asked to imagine what things would be like if such-and-such were the case.
Not only do we see things that are not really present, but for example we have impressions of space and mass, perhaps by means of what Berenson called 'ideated sensations' those which involve imaginary motor or kinaesthetic sensations.
Incredibly, human beings are waking up early in the mornings to drive to offices to perform imaginary business in imaginary markets involving imaginary customers using imaginary money to buy imaginary goods and services instead of simply enjoying their non-imaginary and most definitely real lives with each other.
The reflective gesture of the imagination further served as a significant source of affective care through the establishment of fictive kinship, which involves imaginary kin ties: I know they are not my mother but I'm here to care for them.
According to Marjorie Taylor, of the University of Oregon and author of Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them, boys and girls are involved in imaginary play to the same extent, but while girls are likely to invent companions, boys tend to impersonate imaginary characters instead.
But then, five years ago, who would have thought 500 million people would download a game that involved chasing imaginary creatures down a high street before trapping them in an imaginary ball?
It involved an imaginary young man falling out of bed; snatching at random garments, male and female; and making them into a magical realist wardrobe.
A few groups of kids were involved in imaginary adventures that lasted over several days on the retreat.
Though still recovering from the death of her soldier husband and the recent hearing loss of her son Henry Kylee Harrison Breitkopf, Clairee remembers another crime involving an imaginary friend named Drill, and soon, ol' Drill is seeming not so imaginary after all.
The film's plot involves an imaginary competition among bands, all of them in reality Prince's creations, shot in a Minneapolis club where Prince often played.
