Fiction

From Textop Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search
Definition
Fiction is "compound imagination."
So when a man compoundeth the image of his own person with the image of the actions of another man, as when a man imagines himself a Hercules or an Alexander (which happeneth often to them that are much taken with reading of romances), it is a compound imagination, and properly but a fiction of the mind.
Hobbes, Lev II 4
Personal tools