Induction might almost represent this view of it. By means of it and entertainer might amuse an audience with fire-breathing monsters, men enfolded in the coils of serpents, etc.īut then Gregory does not deny that lying wonders are also fabricated by it. It must therefore be something more spontaneous than ratiocination, whether deductive or inductive while it is more reliable than Fancy or Imagination. The first is the faculty which analyses and elucidates the view of things undissected and in the gross ( ὁ λοσχερῆ): whereby a simple phenomenon becomes complex speculatively: for instance, man becomes a compound of soul and body. The second, by a union of perception and fancy, produces fictions out of realities, i.e. divides wholes into parts, and combines those parts, selected arbitrarily, into new wholes e.g. Analysis (scientific) would describe the one fancy, the other.
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