ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the relationship between perception and imagination, what matters for everyone purposes is the contrast between p. and I2.2. The difference is that perception represents-as-existent its object, whereas imagination represents-as-nonexistent its. Perception and Imagination difference pertains to the manner in which the object perceived or imagined represents in consciousness, that is, the kind of attitude consciousness bears to its content. Perception and Imagination are important, but stare's concern in the present chapter is specifically with phenomenal similarity. The phenomenal similarity between perceptual and imaginative experience is in content: what is represented in consciousness is the same. Surveying historical accounts of imagination, Sartre isolates a fundamental strand he calls the classical conception. According to Sartre, the difference between perceiving and imagining is of the same sort, it is an attitudinal difference. It is highly plausible that Husserl was strongly influenced by Brentano's general way of thinking in terms of attitudinal differences and similarities.
