 Much of the contemporary discussion of imagination has centered around particular roles that imagination is purported to play in various domains of human understanding and activity. Amongst the most widely-discussed are the role of imagination in understanding other minds  (section 3.1),  in performing and recognizing pretense  (section 3.2),  in characterizing psychopathology  (section 3.3),  in engaging with the arts  (section 3.4),  in thinking creatively  (section 3.5),  in acquiring knowledge about possibilities  (section 3.6),  and in interpreting figurative language  (section 3.7).