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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Daniel Dennett
Philosophy, Imagination, Philosopher
"Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1991.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Daniel Dennett
Long, Imagination, Worry

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

Daniel Dennett
Music, Reading, Imagination
Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.71, Hachette UK

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