The books and stories were written unpretentiously and lyrically, with a refreshing taste for heroism and adventure as well as, perhaps surprisingly, an imaginative knowledge of biochemistry that made the dragons seem at least scientifically plausible.
The other aspect must be satisfied elsewhere through imaginative knowledge.
Imaginative knowledge, whether literature or cinema, is key to closing this gap.
"In short," Justice Sotomayor wrote, "officers and judges need no imaginative powers, knowledge of developmental psychology, training in cognitive science, or expertise in social and cultural anthropology to account for a child's age.
His style is universal, with three major strengths: wide opening knowledge, imaginative tactical flair and, like Carlsen, deep strategic vision in barren positions.
He is contemptuous of allegories and imaginative representations of philosophic knowledge, silent about theology, and shows no concern with improving the multitude's opinions and way of life.
The co-author of both The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy brings his vast knowledge of imaginative literature to this playful but daunting far-future novel.
Of greater relevance was his suspicion of the move from conceivability to possibility, and inconceivability to impossibility, thinking that answers to questions about conceivability were dependent upon the state of knowledge and imaginative powers of the person entertaining them.
In October 2010, it was reported that McCormack would star in a new TNT television drama, Perception, playing a crime-solving neuroscientist named Dr. Daniel Pierce, who works with the federal government to solve cases using his knowledge and imaginative view of the world.
With large imaginative sympathy and a detailed knowledge of early-19th-century housekeeping, Baker gives us a sobering look at the underside — or the practical side — of daily life circa 1812, where in a bourgeois household, however hard up, a staff of people, knowing their place, worked an 18-hour day, every day, to achieve for their employers even the minimum of comfort.
This rule-roosting device -- See? Nothing to it -- satisfies the need for the new: "Hyphenation gives the impression," says Frank Abate, former editor in chief of the U.S. Dictionaries program at Oxford University Press, "that the compound is novel, imaginative or requires some background knowledge".
