In her acceptance speech, she talked eloquently about the relationship between South Africa and the rest of the world, and of the South African writer's duty to his or her country: "When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty.
First, as Hume himself recognizes, there is nothing in principle to prevent an idea of memory from being decidedly faint and without force (just as ideas of imagination can be vivid and forceful).
In the context of early modern philosophy of physical nature, and in particular the Cartesian philosophy in which Spinoza is steeped, the clarity and distinctness of mathematical ideas provides the contrast to the incompleteness and confusion of idea of the imagination and sensation.
"It can be translated as 'pause,'intervalal,' or 'space' between two things which is more related to the idea of human imagination and environment functioning as a meditation tool in the dark room, while people can also enjoy the interaction between the movements of hand and sound as some sort of physical expression," explains Oikawa.
Millikan mentions several ideas: lack of imagination, desire to conform, playing it safe by sticking with what has worked.
And although his work is "informed by protest and rebellion", he has always rejected the idea that flights of imagination should be geared to political commitment, or that his designs should be simplified and made more accessible.
To some, the whole idea of a historical imagination will sound nebulous.
The idea of the historical imagination was replaced with the source-based empiricism championed by Ranke.
Intellectually, Scott and figures like Thomas Carlyle played a part in the development of historiography and the idea of the historical imagination.
