The Value of Creativity and Imagination

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The Value of Creativity and Imagination Cre·a·tiv·i·ty, noun, \ˌkrē-ā-ˈti-və-tē,ˌkrē-ə-\ : the quality of being creative, the ability to create, the ability to make new things or think of new ideas, the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, solution, artwork, literary work, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. Origin: from the Latin term creō "to create, make" and its derivational suffixes also come from Latin. There are those who claim that the term was coined by the late 19th century mathematician-turned-philosopher Alfred North Whitehead to show: “a force in the universe that allows the presence of actual entity a new one based on actual entity, others actual entities.” , stating that “Creativity is the principle of novelty.” Imag·i·na·tion, noun, \i-ˌma-jə-ˈnā-shən\ : the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality, the creative ability, ability to confront and deal with a problem : resourcefulness, the thinking or active mind, a creation of the mind; especially : an idealized or poetic creation, an act or process of forming a conscious idea or mental image of something never before wholly perceived in reality by the one forming the images (as through a synthesis of remembered elements of previous sensory experiences or ideas as modified by unconscious defense mechanisms); also : the ability or gift of forming such conscious ideas or mental images especially for the purposes of artistic or intellectual creation. Origin: from Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin imagination-, imaginatio, from imaginari. It is most certainly no bold statement to begin an essay on the value of creativity and imagination by stating that

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