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The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1 (of 4)

Note 411 — Chapter III · (continued 4)

Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation

Imagination appears to me the best translation of Phantasie. Our English word, however, seems rather to lie between it and Vorstellung. Practically Hegel means here what we mean when we distinguish it from fancy (Einbildungskraft), though in Ruskin's original and most suggestive analysis of the terms, "fancy" of course implied a limited power of creative activity or at least associative activity.

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