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How does Samuel Taylor Coleridge distinguish the 'Primary Imagination' from the 'Secondary Imagination'?
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- 1The Primary Imagination dissolves, diffuses, and dissipates in order to recreate, while the Secondary is purely mechanical and associative.
- 2The Primary is the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, while the Secondary is an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will.✓
- 3The Secondary Imagination is merely 'fancy,' a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
- 4The Primary Imagination is a conscious act of the will, whereas the Secondary Imagination is an involuntary reflex of the human mind.
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The Primary is the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, while the Secondary is an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will.
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