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想象在任何创造性活动中都有重大作用。但是,人们在想象中也有可能超越现实,使思维脱离事物运动的规律,不一定能合规律性地反映客观实际。如古希腊人有着杰出的想象力,在解释世界的本原对,创立了形形色色的“元素说”、“种子说”,“原子论”,形成了将自然科学与哲学融为一体的自然哲学。恩格斯对此评价说:自然哲学是“用理想的、幻想的联系来代替尚未知道的现实的联系,用臆想来补充缺少的事实,用纯粹的想象来填补现实的空白。它在这样做
Imagination plays a big role in any creative activity. However, people may also surpass reality in their imagination and make thinking out of the law of things, so they may not necessarily reflect the objective reality in a regular manner. As the ancient Greeks, with their outstanding imagination, explained the origin of the world, they created all kinds of “elementalism,” “seed theory,” and “atomism.” They formed a natural philosophy that combines natural science with philosophy . Engels commented that natural philosophy is "replacing the unseen reality with the ideal and the fantasy, supplementing the missing facts with imagination, and filling in the blank of reality with pure imagination. It is doing so