What is the opposite of imagination?

[Hacker Jack]

And what exactly is imagination? How do you define it?

 

[Rive]

What is the opposite of imagination?

Playing Doom?

By the way, why do you think there should be an opposite for it?

Anyway,

 

[mjc123]

What do you mean by opposite? Do you mean the lack of it - like an unimaginative person, a blockhead? Or an opposite - or at least complementary - faculty, like reason?

 

[hutchphd]

Dogma

 

[fresh_42]

Imagination is $-\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$ and the opposite is the realization.

 

[berkeman]

What is the opposite of imagination?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imagination

Near Antonyms for imagination

• literality
• literalnes

 

[Ibix]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imagination

+1 for having the imagination to look up the literal antonym.

 

[gleem]

Dogma

and faith or belief. They will inhibit individuality the cradle of imagination.

 

[Infrared]

Imagination is $-\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$ and the opposite is the realization.

These aren't opposites (inverses)!

 

[fresh_42]

These aren't opposites (inverses)!

And this wasn't a serious question.

 

[mcastillo356]

Sorry, I am not native...I'm learning. Could be something like "let it be"? Yes, it's a verb, but I think it suits. Am I wrong?

 

[aheight]

And what exactly is imagination? How do you define it?

Perhaps you meant "What goes on in my brain when I imagine things?"

Say I just went downstairs to make a pot of coffee, peanut butter and toast. Now I'm up here typing away lightening-fast on my PC. As I'm writing this, I pause and think about my experience down there , getting the water, pouring it in, measuring the coffee, checking the label for saturated fat. What exactly is going on in the brain that's allowing me to "imagine" that past experience, and what allows me to imagine wholly new and novel scenarios for which I have not physically participated? That is, what property of the brain gives rise to the latter, that of creative inventiveness, and how does this process contribute to the discovery of new ideas?

 

[Vanadium 50]

noitanigami

 

[Evo]

This thread has been answered, thanks everyone, thread closed.