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Fontenelle, the “Why Not?”, and Thought Experiment

  • Journal: Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle)
    2019, n° 16    . Les libertins et l’imagination
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  • Abstract: “Why Not?,” and emblematic formula in the Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, is the necessary condition of a redefinition of the exercise of thought and thus confers on the imagination a heuristic function. How can we imagine what we have never seen or what would be unique? How, playing with points of view, can there be a heuristics of the imagination which aims not at solving problems as much as at stating them differently?
  • Number of pages: 253
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-09789-1
  • ISSN: 2649-1826
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09789-1.p.0189
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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  • Keyword: Fontenelle, Gaston Bachelard, Why Not, imagination, fiction, experience, Thought Experience, the possible.
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