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A Hybrid ImaginationIntroduction

A Hybrid Imagination: Introduction [Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is away of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes…The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination. The task of a university is to weld together imagination and experience.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Hybrid ImaginationIntroduction

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2011
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978-3-031-79973-0
Pages
1 –12
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-79974-7_1
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[Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is away of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes…The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination. The task of a university is to weld together imagination and experience.]

Published: Jan 1, 2011

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