Imagination that amounts to knowledge from fiction

The idea that the imagination can help us acquire knowledge is relatively uncontroversial. For example, that you can imagine some state of affairs seems like evidence that that state of affairs is possible. But imagination sometimes plays a more central role in the acquisition of knowledge: imagination sometimes amounts to knowledge, rather than merely being among the causes of knowledge. In the same way that instances of belief amount to knowledge in paradigm cases of knowledge, instances of imagination can amount to knowledge. In the relevant cases, your imagination that p is partly constitutive of your knowledge that p. Such cases include some cases of knowledge from fiction, providing one way in which engagement with fiction can provide knowledge.