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Melser, Derek James |
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2011-07-13T21:35:29Z |
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2022-10-27T01:06:43Z |
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dc.date.available |
2011-07-13T21:35:29Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-10-27T01:06:43Z |
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dc.date.copyright |
1967 |
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dc.date.issued |
1967 |
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https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/25390 |
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dc.description.abstract |
In her extremely valuable book The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (Revised edition, Macmillan 1966) - a book which, unhappily, I read too late to incorporate in this thesis - Dorothy Emmet says that the metaphysician is one who declares the "importance" of a "spiritual or intellectual experience" and then, taking off for higher regions, uses the idea of this experience "to impose a perspective on the world as a whole." My thesis is a work of metaphysics insofar as it asserts and presupposes the importance of a certain intellectual (but not spiritual) experience (we can call it 'the imagination archetype') but it is not a work of metaphysics insofar as I do not attempt to impose a perspective on 'the world as a whole' but only on 'thinking'. The imagination archetype can be set out as follows : |
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en_NZ |
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en_NZ |
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dc.publisher |
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington |
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dc.title |
Patterns: groundwork for a philosophy of imagination |
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dc.type |
Text |
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Awarded Research Masters Thesis |
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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