Mostly this meant that the social imagination was defined by the campus: sanctioned clubs, team sports, class offices.
It is defined by more than numbers, and it encompasses spark and imagination, grit and determination.
Imagination can be defined broadly as the manipulation of information that is not directly available to an agent's sensors.
In Nature, for example, Emerson writes: "The Imagination may be defined to be, the use which the Reason makes of the material world" (O, 25).
In the popular imagination, that struggle was defined by the dramatic face-off between Thomas and his former colleague Anita Hill, but Senate Democrats still fume about an earlier part of those hearings — when the nominee refused to reveal his views on many legal and constitutional controversies, among them Roe v. Wade.
And while there are countless categories of books being offered within non-fiction and fiction areas, my own authorial interest is in the fate of the mainstream novel, a long form work of the imagination that cannot be defined by any established genre.
To answer our research question we studied stakeholder assessments in three countries that had taken part in the IMAGINATION research project.7 'Stakeholders' are defined as actors who deal professionally with European mobility, selected on the basis of their professional affiliation, and distributed across public, private and NGO sector.
But a war on terrorism that, with some imagination, is broadly defined as making America safer by also making it better is a war that could be won.
Like any tool, the limits of the program are defined by the imagination of the artist, and it's interesting to see how some people have manipulated and stretched those limits to create the unexpected.
