ABSTRACT
The uses, and applications, of the terms “image”, “imagine”, “imagination”, and so forth make up a very diverse and scattered family. Supposition emerges as one of the new missing mysteries of philosophy. Supposition has been taken either as clearly non-imaginative, or as obviously imaginative. Partisans of the imaginative nature of supposition have stressed the imaginative features of supposition, with special attention to its dependence on the will and its independence from truth. Some features of supposition suggest a connection to System 2. The deliberativeness and the considerable independence from the subject’s overall mental setup typical of supposition are compatible with the fact that System 2 processes are controlled, and mostly abstract or domain-general. Likewise, the channelled dynamics of supposition, which grounds its normative features, parallels the sequential functioning, as well as the working memory constraints, that characterise System 2.
