They thus rest their case on an appeal to the inherent laws of our conceptive faculty; mistaking, as I apprehend, for the laws of that faculty its acquired habits, grounded on the spontaneous tendencies of its uncultured state.
The most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.
Moisture, or air, or numbers, carried to their minds a precisely similar impression of making intelligible what was otherwise inconceivable, and gave the same full satisfaction to the demands of their conceptive faculty.
The most practiced intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.
It is full of passages of rare technical excellence, as well as of conceptive beauty: so full, indeed, that the sympathetic reader of it as a drama will be too apt to overlook its radical shortcomings, cast as it is in the dramatic mould.
It is a power of simple conception; and yet it differs in an important sense from the otherconceptive powers and that is, that it is not reflective but intuitive in its action.
I, H, U, H designates the generative and conceptive Forces, 267-u.
But that size in pictures is no test of conceptive artistic genius needs no demonstration, though it may be conceded to be a gauge of executive ability.
The conceptive faculty working with a perception of facts singularly narrow and imperfect, projected every idea boldly into the sphere of the actual.
Moisture, or air, or numbers, carried to their minds a precisely similar impression of making that intelligible which was otherwise inconceivable, and gave the same full satisfaction to the demands of their conceptive faculty.
It is the essential conceptive powers that tinge all the consequences of the exterior conceptive powers.
The conceptive powers want much more purification than the perceptive; and it is only as we purify the conceptive that we shall get the perceptive clear.
This decision was, of course, looked upon as tyrannical by the Pracritists, that is, the followers of the conceptive power theory; they revolted.
By the very nature of the conceptive process the writer seizes his story ideas in terms of persons, events, or atmosphere.
It is almost impossible to judge the worth of an idea immediately after it is conceived; by separating the conceptive and executive processes you will be led to avoid much waste labor in developing what is essentially weak.
The exercise is valuable because it is the only possible way to exercise the conceptive faculty in detail.
Strict executive technique and also the technique of construction--which is both conceptive and executive--will be taken up after dealing with the matter of story types and the matter of plot.
When the writer has his hands on a plot, of whatever type and however found, his conceptive labors are by no means over.
The sole limitation upon his work is his ownconceptive and executive power, unless he foolishly subjects himself to the bondage of some special school.
If he does admit any difference in type, and allows it to influence him, hisconceptive faculty will be hampered and that is artistic death.
A more mechanical exercise of the conceptive faculty, but a very valuable one, is to shape and re-shape what I will term abstract stories.
The writer of fiction should be warned that it is supremely difficult to avoid becoming artificial and mechanical, and that he will surely become so if he does his conceptive thinking in terms of analysis.
The labors of the fiction writer are of two sorts, conceptive and executive.
It was the fierce, instinctive impulse that accompanies all creative power, the tremendous impetus towards production that is an integral part of all conceptive capacity.
The pressing want to produce is as wholly natural, as innate, as independent of the individual's volition as the conceptive impulse itself.
Mr. Mill is right in his scorn for those who “erect the incurable limitations of the human conceptive faculty into laws of the outward universe,” if there are such limitations.
Not consciously gained knowledge alone, but powerful intellectual instinct, joined with vast conceptive powers, constitute the great inquirer.
In the same way the poet operates upon the material supplied him by his emotions, projecting it into an image for the conceptive faculty.
The conceptive power is shown, as Binet and Féré remark, by the fact that our imagination has done away with the end of a nerve which should be seen at every instant of our lives.
