theVOID Wrote:ib.me.ub Wrote:theVOID Wrote:I can learn that P and have acquired the ability to imagine that P. (Learning of 'the fabric of spacetime' gives you the ability to imagine spacetime)
So what if I was to imagine something, then later find out that this thing is true and has been proven or though of already, without prior knowledge of the subject matter. I wouldn't know what the subject matter was called (if konwn), but I would understand what it is, and perhaps how it works.
Yes you have a chance of devising for yourself the answer to a problem that someone else has already though of, and no you, will not know what they called it. Is this supposed to be surprising? It seems a bit of a non-factor to me.
Yes, you don't need to explian it to me, I do undertsand. It was a rhetorical example & its not special, thats the whole point.
It was in direct responce to your assertion that I must learn something before being able to imagine it. Or did I miss understand your comment.
