TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Técher, Julien
TI  - Fontenelle, the “Why Not?”, and Thought Experiment
T2  - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) 2019, n° 16. Les libertins et l’imagination
JO  - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) (ISSN 2649-1826), 16, 2019
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09789-1.p.0189
SN  - 2649-1826
SP  - 189
EP  - 208
AB  - “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?
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/11/06
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Fontenelle, Gaston Bachelard, Why Not, imagination, fiction, experience, Thought Experience, the possible.
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/libertinage-et-philosophie-a-l-epoque-classique-xvie-xviiie-siecle-2019-n-16-les-libertins-et-l-imagination-fontenelle-the-why-not-and-thought-experiment.html
Y2  - 2024/07/17
ER  -