4 Conclusion

We have not tried to be exhaustive and answer every point raised in Brüggen’s rich commentary here. But we still hope that we have dealt with her main concerns. Despite the fact that our minimal notion of re-creation does not introduce a substantial metaphysical relation between the imaginative and the non-imaginative realms, it should be conceived as a place-holder for such a relation. Our taxonomy can then be taken as a starting-point for, and perhaps a constraint on, a full-blooded theory of the ontology of imagination.