Sentences with phrase «imaginative interpretations as»

As inscrutable codes go, few inspire as many imaginative interpretations as the Voynich manuscript, a medieval tome filled with illustrations of medicinal plants, astrological diagrams, naked nymphs and pages of indecipherable script.

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Even if such preposterousness could be overcome, there would remain all of the questions of why perspective would not totally determine interpretation, as would happen if interactions were sheerly physical, and of how good art and good criticism would be distinguished from bad.9 Clearly, art and its impact can not be understood without some allowance for its status as an imaginative reality, a status deeply dependent on art's physicalness, but not reducible to physicalness.

In a world of war and violence, for example, equilibrium is not objectively true, but is in fact an imaginative act of interpretation that has been established and accepted as true.

All parties to this act of interpretation need to understand that the text is not a contextless absolute, nor is it a historical description, but it is itself a responsive, assertive, imaginative act that stands as a proposal of reality to the community.

But the symbols discover this meaning for us (S 57, emphasis added), 21 a remark that recalls Wittgenstein's famous conclusion of his Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus: «Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is»; except that the how of world - making, if it is ultimately dependent on imaginative interpretations of signs or symbolisms, becomes every bit as mysterious as the fact that it is.

To summarize, the theory of symbolic reference supports the view of a percipient event as a working through of various (potentially creative) imaginative interpretations.

Grounded in literary sources such as Poe and Mallarmé, his work reflects the artist's psychoanalytic research and features an imaginative interpretation of esoteric sciences, especially alchemy.