كاركرد متخيله در دريافت امور غيبي از ديدگاه ابن سينا

Function of Imagination in Relation to Invisible Things From Ibn Sinaʹs Viewpoint

In cosmological discussions, it is argued that the cosmos consists of the invisible world and the visible world, and that every event happened in the visible word is inscribed in the supreme beginnings and immaterial intelligences. Hence, availability to the invisible world means connection and communication with human soul. This essay, in which an attempt is made to explain Ibn Sinaʹs viewpoint on the function of imagination in relation to the hidden, first presents the function of imagination in thinking and understanding the universals. Then it discusses the how of its function in receiving invisible things. And finally it deals with the epistemology of revelation and dream as two principal categories connected to the hidden.