Imagination
a term used in various significations. Addison says that "the pleasures of imagination are such as arise from visible objects, since it is the sense of sight that furnishes the imagination with its ideas." Others, however, employ the word in a much wider signification: some, as synonymous with fancy; others, as denoting generally the faculty of the human mind by which thoughts or ideas are produced at will.
Philosophers have divided imagination into two kinds-the reproductive and the productive. By the former, they mean IMAUS imagination considered simply as re-exhibiting or representing the objects presented by perception, that is, exhibiting them without addition or retrenchment, or any change in the relations which they reciprocally held when first made known to us through sense. The ductive or creative imagination is that which is usually signified by the term imagination or fancy in ordinary language. There are different kinds of imagination, as there are different kinds of intellectual activity. There is the imagination of abstraction, the imagination of wit, the imagination of judgment, of judgment , the imagination of reason, the imagination of feeling, and the imagination of the passions.
IMAUS (i-mā'us), a name applied by the ancients sometimes to the Hindu Kush and the W. part of the Himalayan range, and sometimes in a vague way to a range in Central Asia (supposed to be the Altaian Mountains), which they believed to divide the vast region to which they gave the name of Scythia, into two parts.