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Some times we have gaps between our mental objects. These gaps usually [[RPE|puzzle us]] and we look for an explanation or some intermediate MO that will close the gap. Therefore we invent an unseen MO to bridge the gap. When we invent the bridging MO, we usually imagine it and we do not get if from phenomenological intervals (when we will further research, we will see that all MOs are imaginary mental objects), therefore we will call it Imaginary Mental Object or [[iMO]], while the objects obtained from phenomenological intervals will call Sensory Mental Objects([[sMO]]).
For instance, when the ancients looked upward and saw the sun travels through the skies, the they where puzzled. The They knew that every object which is traveling need something to pull or to thrust it, yet the sun seems to move without a mover. To solve it, they invented a "story" or a mental object that was missing. They told their hearers that the sun is pulled by invisible horses. The invisible horses where their iMO that bridged the gap.
We use iMOs more then we recognize naturally. All our theories and especially the scientific theories are built of networks of iMOs. We only seldom see directly our iMOs. For instance iMO:atoms was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_theory#Early_modern_development talked about for more then 200 years in the modern science]. Yet not until recently people did not observe atoms. And even today when we "see" atoms it is through very complicated theories constucted into the scientific observation tools. We cannot observe atoms directly,and therefore atoms will stay iMOs.