Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6195
dc.title	Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization
dc.contributor.author	Oliveri Lucia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2021/2/conceivability-errors-and-the-role-of-imagination/
dc.description.abstract	n the years 1675-84, Leibniz sought to disprove Descartes’s account of clear and distinct perception by implementing a three-step argumentative strategy. The first part of the paper reconstructs the argument and highlights what aspects of Descartes’s epistemology it addresses. The reconstruction shows that the argument is based on conceivability errors. These are a kind of symbolic cognition that prove Descartes’s clear and distinct perception as introspectively indistinguishable from Leibniz’s symbolic cognition. The second part of the paper explores the epistemic implication of the indistinguishability between clear and distinct perception and symbolic cognition: the mind constitutively depends on products of the imagination. My conclusion addresses the role of the imagination in symbolization. Symbolization does not exceed imagination; it rather is an idealized use of cognitive surrogates, like characters, to submit to the imagination what is not subject to it.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-15
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-12
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/02/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Descartes
dc.subject	Descartes
dc.subject	Imagination
dc.subject	Imagination
dc.subject	Leibniz
dc.subject	Leibniz
dc.subject	Symbolic cognition
dc.subject	Symbolic cognition
dc.subject	Symbolization
dc.subject	Symbolization

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Lucia Oliveri Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Deutschland

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n the years 1675-84, Leibniz sought to disprove Descartes’s account of clear and distinct perception by implementing a three-step argumentative strategy. The first part of the paper reconstructs the argument and highlights what aspects of Descartes’s epistemology it addresses. The reconstruction shows that the argument is based on conceivability errors. These are a kind of symbolic cognition that prove Descartes’s clear and distinct perception as introspectively indistinguishable from Leibniz’s symbolic cognition. The second part of the paper explores the epistemic implication of the indistinguishability between clear and distinct perception and symbolic cognition: the mind constitutively depends on products of the imagination. My conclusion addresses the role of the imagination in symbolization. Symbolization does not exceed imagination; it rather is an idealized use of cognitive surrogates, like characters, to submit to the imagination what is not subject to it.

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15 Dicembre 2021

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05 Ottobre 2021

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12 Luglio 2021

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Keywords: Leibniz • Symbolic cognition • Symbolization • Descartes • Imagination

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