Sentence examples for activity of imagination from inspiring English sources

Their doubters, it seems, believe that this activity of imagination was wrong or condemnable.

He describes it as perceived both in the object itself and in the activity of imagination and understanding in their engagement with the object.

This role coincides with the role assigned to the faculty of judgment in the Critique of Pure Reason; it also appears to correspond to the activity of imagination in its "schematism" of concepts.

At A120, Kant tells us that apprehending impressions is taking them up into the activity of imagination, i.e., into the faculty of the mind that becomes conscious of images.

At home, children have less time outdoors, less time for conversation, less time for natural play and activities of imagination.

That works are the activity of the imagination does not make them any less real in Collingwood's opinion.

The emphasis Kant places on the role of the activity of the imagination in aesthetic pleasure and discernment typifies a trend in Enlightenment thought.

This early mythological narrative in which lesser deities are the agencies of sensory activity in humans bears some structural similarity to Descartes' account in his Treatise of Man and Passions of the Soul of the animal spirits which flowing from the pineal gland control the activity of sensation, imagination, as well as bodily movements.

To our ears now, it is a little strange to find Kant calling this activity of reproduction and the activity of apprehension acts of imagination.

To which one might respond with the words of another Connecticut insurance man, Wallace Stevens: "Reality is an activity of the most august imagination".

While the romantic movies we see on the big screen almost never end in explicit sexual activity, it can take a bit of imagination to discover what romance looks like in the bedroom when it is not PG-13.