id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_s74sfrn3yvdm7iixnucvqvnsuy Steven French Imagination in Scientific Practice 2020 19 .pdf application/pdf 11228 710 58 of invitations to imagine in certain scientific texts as represented by the example of Einstein's Now, of course, the claim that imagination plays a role in scientific This, I shall claim, opens up space for consideration of imagining as on a par with other elements of the relevant practice, such as proposing, Furthermore, it is also argued, such imaginings may also incorporate certain symbolic elements that likewise cannot be accommodated via the usual belief related the claims that neither acceptance nor imagination is belief-like, as we have seen. imaginative episodes in scientific practice, as represented by the example of Einstein's framework within which we can consider Einstein's invitation to imagine as appropriately 'belief-like', in line with what is presented in the rest of his paper. Thus, we can maintain that imagination in science is belief-like, in the above sense, and of imagination in general in papers like Einstein's, and other examples of scientific ./cache/work_s74sfrn3yvdm7iixnucvqvnsuy.pdf ./txt/work_s74sfrn3yvdm7iixnucvqvnsuy.txt