Title: Imagination
Headings: 
Ways of Knowing: IMAGINATION
Possible essay questions:
Imagination
'I have a dream.'
Imagine...
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Too little imagination?
Too much imagination?

Content: So can imagination give us knowledge which other ways of knowing can't? Imagination conveys truths that reality hides and stimulate us to create new knowledge. Many scientific discoveries would not have been made without imagination. Problem solving is often the result of creative imagination as well. In the field of politics and ethics, imagination can lead to the 'discoveries' of dystopian and utopian realities. The ideologies as well as the nightmare scenarios which some political leaders present us, clearly draw on imagination (whether or not these visions are based on reality). They shape what we know and how we live our lives. The apocalyptic futures of religious text draw on imagination as well. Imagination also plays an important role in understanding others, as illustrated before through the example of empathy. Imagination is more than conjuring a mental picture of something.