Sentence examples for faculty of imagining from inspiring English sources

Understanding is for Hobbes the work of the faculty of imagining, and crucially involves language.

That is, the faculty of imagining is responsible for understanding, as well as for compounding images and for memory.

Understanding is, Hobbes says, "[t]he imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature endued with the faculty of imagining) by words or other voluntary signs" (Hobbes 1651, 2.10).

But Hobbes also connects imagination, and "the faculty of imagining" (Hobbes 1651, 2.10) closely to memory and to understanding.

Not only was the faculty qua faculty called into question, but the very notion of imagining.

A couple of Oxford faculty imagine a different kind of university, one that is distributed and democratic.

Timothy K. Eatman is co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) and a Syracuse University (SU) faculty member within the department of higher education in the School of Education.

Although Mr. Lodge denies that he has any real-life prototypes for his characters, imagine a technocratic Ted Hughes in a secret romance with a newcomer to the faculty of a provincial university.

Whether judging that there is a tree before me, imagining there is a tree before me, or reasoning to a generalization that all trees have roots, these mental events employ the faculty of conception.

Imagine the blessing and joy that the prospect of heartfelt giving was producing in the hearts of the children, parents and faculty of these schools.

Faculty of Brooklyn Law School.