Phantasia

Quick meaning: Phantasia is a noun meaning (philosophy) A phantasm (an impression received through the senses) or the faculty of receiving or representing these impressions.

Meaning

(philosophy) A phantasm (an impression received through the senses) or the faculty of receiving or representing these impressions.

More Meanings

1. Archaic spelling of fantasia.
2. (dated) Something imaginary; a fantasy.

Example Sentences

What we consider a clear logical conclusive chain of argument is as often a phantasia.

Everything in the created world has to be understood not just an appearance or image—a phantasia, in [John Scotus] Eriugena's vocabulary—but as at the same time a divine revelation or manifestation, [...]

Chrysippus called 'experience' the "treasury of phantasias", [...] According to Chrysippus, the phantasias burdened with appearances can be distinguished from the true ones by the mobilization of former groups of phantasias and by the operations with them.

When one thing fits into another, when all the parts mutually support and are supported, when a theory is capable of accounting for all questions, and thus is, in a certain sense, self-balanced and self-sustained and entire, we have a phantasia of truth forced upon our minds, even against our will.

Word Forms

• phantasias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phantasy, imagery, phantasm, fantasy, phantasmagory, imaginary.

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