imagines

• CURIE: gmeow:imagines
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/imagines
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/imagination
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

An agent entertains content AS-IF — quasi-perceptually, decoupled from current perception and from belief: picturing a scene, an object, or a situation without holding it true. The base imaginative attitude and the cheap 80% surface. Range is intentionally OPEN: the object may be a gmeow:Proposition, a described scene, or any content (the five-minute-gate shortcut, Principle 13). Non-functional — an agent imagines many things at once. The corresponding occurrent is a gmeow:MentalProcess with gmeow:mentalProcessType gmeow:processImagining (mentation, by reference); from whose vantage the content is entertained rides gmeow:accordingTo on the statement, never a truth bit here.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> ?

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:imagines from gmeow:Agent to ? when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Counterfactual Rehearsal

• Source: slices/core/imagination/examples/counterfactual-rehearsal.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-imagination-examples-counterfactual-rehearsal

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix logic: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/logic/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/imagination/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .



# --- The agent and the what-if premise she takes on hypothetically.
ex:lillith a gmeow:Agent ;
    gmeow:supposes ex:interestRatesDouble ;   # held AS-IF, not believed
    gmeow:imagines ex:recessionScene .         # the scene she pictures under it

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record that an agent entertains content quasi-perceptually as-if — picturing a scene or situation without holding it true — the base imaginative attitude and the natural companion of a gmeow:processImagining episode; reach for it for counterfactual rehearsal, planning rollouts, and fiction.

Avoid when

• Avoid where the agent HOLDS the content true (use gmeow:believes) or takes it on pragmatically for argument (use gmeow:accepts) or merely hypothesises a proposition (use gmeow:supposes); imagining asserts neither truth nor commitment, and it is never a factive verdict about the content.

How to use

• Point the agent at the content it entertains; tag the content's reality-monitoring source with gmeow:contentOrigin gmeow:originImagined, link the explored world with gmeow:imaginedWorld (logic:World, by reference) when a counterfactual world is in play, and carry the vantage on gmeow:accordingTo of the statement rather than asserting the content as a fact.

Scope notes

• Distinct from belief and acceptance (no axiom): gmeow:believes holds content TRUE (mind-to-world fit) and gmeow:accepts takes it on PRAGMATICALLY for argument; gmeow:imagines entertains it AS-IF, asserting neither truth nor pragmatic commitment. The imagined content's source is marked with gmeow:contentOrigin gmeow:originImagined for reality-monitoring, never an isReal flag.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:imagines ex:dragonOnTheLawn.