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26301 theories
26302 of
26303 physical
26304 and
26305 metaphysical
26306 reality
26307 These
26308 early
26309 modern
26310 thinkers
26311 mobilized
26312 the
26313 imaginative
26314 habits
26315 of
26316 thought
26317 constitutive
26318 to
26319 major
26320 genres
26321 of
26322 literary
26323 writingincluding
26324 epic
26325 tragedy
26326 romance
26327 lyric
26328 and
26329 utopiain
26330 order
26331 to
26332 produce
26333 knowledge
26334 divorced
26335 from
26336 historical
26337 truth
26338 and
26339 empirical
26340 fact
26341 by
26342 envisioning
26343 states
26344 of
26345 being
26346 untethered
26347 from
26348 nature
26349 or
26350 reality
26351 Approaching
26352 imaginative
26353 modes
26354 such
26355 as
26356 hypothesis
26357 conjecture
26358 prediction
26359 and
26360 counterfactuals
26361 as
26362 instruments
26363 of
26364 possible
26365 knowledge
26366 Sarkar
26367 exposes
26368 how
26369 the
26370 speculative
26371 allure
26372 of
26373 the
26374 possible
26375 lurks
26376 within
26377 scientific
26378 experiment
26379 induction
26380 and
26381 theories
26382 of
26383 probability
26384 In
26385 showing
26386 how
26387 early
26388 modern
26389 literary
26390 writing
26391 sought
26392 to
26393 grapple
26394 with
26395 the
26396 challenge
26397 of
26398 forging
26399 knowledge
26400 in