reproductive imagination
Americannoun
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Nay, the representation of them is a mere schema, that always relates to the reproductive imagination, which calls up the objects of experience, without which they have no meaning.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Contemporary psychology has studied the purely reproductive imagination with great eagerness and success.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
Finding Out Your Weak Points We suggest that you now test your own reproductive imagination with a view to determining your points of strength or weakness in this respect.
From Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
From this interest results, moreover, careful attention, and from this latter, facility in the reproductive imagination.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
These two stages do not go beyond memory pure and simple, i.e., reproductive imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
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