reproductive imagination
Americannoun
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Give original examples of each kind of reproductive imagination.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
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
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
Many of his observations are, however, just, and his distinction between productive and reproductive imagination is excellent.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Contemporary psychology has studied the purely reproductive imagination with great eagerness and success.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
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