The Analysis of Epistemological Functions of Imagination (Fantasy) from Fārābī’s Point of View

Faculty of fantasy (imagination) is one of the most important faculties of the internal sense and has different functions. The research and analysis of this faculty from the perspective of philosophers will help to determine its functions. The present research is the analysis of the epistemological functions of imagination from Fārābī’s point of view and the answer to the question that: What is Fārābī’s position in explaining the nature and determining the epistemological functions of fantasy (imagination)? We have explained, by analytic method and focusing on the analysis of the nature and functions of representative faculty and evidence of the role of fantasy (imagination) in the field of epistemology, the extent and the scope of fantasy in both formal and conceptual fields and the specific and general meaning of fantasy in these two fields of the fantasy in two formal and conceptual domains and the individual and universal meaning of fantasy in these two fields and we have shown that the general meaning of fantasy that belongs to the conceptual field of the faculty of fantasy, including a variety of argumentative (certain) and non-argumentative (problematic) cognitions. Fārābī’s approach in explaining the scope of fantasy is based on the equivocal mode of man’s cognitive levels and psychological, epistemological foundations and finally Fārābī’s idealistic view, while Ibn Sīnā (Arabic: ابن سینا, Avicenna)’s approach relies more on his anthropological and epistemological theory.