imaginability

The rationale of the argument is a move from imaginability to real possibility.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

But nowadays that inference is generally accepted and the issue concerns the relation between imaginability and possibility.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

I include (2) because the notion of conceivability has one foot in the psychological camp, like imaginability, and one in the camp of pure logical possibility and therefore helps in the transition from one to the other.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

For an analytical behaviourist the appeal to imaginability made in the argument fails, not because imagination is not a reliable guide to possibility, but because we cannot imagine such a thing, as it is a priori impossible.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

No-one would nowadays identify the two (except, perhaps, for certain quasi-realists and anti-realists), but the view that imaginability is a solid test for possibility has been strongly defended.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility.

Zombies Kirk, Robert 2006

Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility.

Zombies Kirk, Robert 2006

These improbable creatures inhabit the outlands, the detached and remote zones of landscape and imaginability; in fact, they give vivid biological definition to the very word “outlandish.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

These improbable creatures inhabit the outlands, the detached and remote zones of landscape and imaginability; in fact, they give vivid biological definition to the very word “outlandish.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

˜conceivability™ argument, often known as the ˜zombie hypothesis™, which claims the imaginability and possibility of my body (or, in some forms, a body physically just like it) existing without there being any conscious states associated with it.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007