semi-schematic

Updated: April 30, 2025

It employs neither the clear-cut, concrete, reality-penetrated images of the plastic imagination, nor the semi-schematic representations of the rational imagination, but those midway in that ascending and descending scale extending from perception to conception. This determination, however, is insufficient, and we can make it more precise.

Th. (Théodule) Ribot - Essay on the Creative Imagination