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  2. Imaginary Conversations - Wikipedia

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    The possibility has been mentioned that Landor was speaking biographically when, in the course of a later work, he has Petrarch describe how, "among the chief pleasures of my life, and among the commonest of my occupations, was the bringing before me such heroes and heroines of antiquity, such poets and sages, such of the prosperous and unfortunate as most interested me"...to engage them in ...

  3. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

  4. List of Landor's Imaginary Conversations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor, a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. It follows the retrospective order and arrangement of the five-volume collection, chosen by Landor himself and to be found in his Collected Works. These were then published separately (1883).

  5. Imaginary (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the imaginary has attracted attention in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and media ...

  6. Data imaginaries - Wikipedia

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    A data imaginary is a particular framing of data that defines what data are and what can be done with them. [1] Imaginaries are produced by social institutions and practices and they influence how people understand and use the object of the imaginary, in this case data. [2] Different data imaginaries compete to be considered common sense.

  7. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Wikipedia

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    The people of the imaginary Tlön hold an extreme form of Berkeley's subjective idealism, denying the reality of the material world. Their world is understood "not as a concurrence of objects in space, but as a heterogeneous series of independent acts."

  8. 50 Of The Most Obvious Things These People Had To ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Iluv_Felashio #3. That bacon wasn't a vegetable. Had ordered a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant and asked for "no veggies." When I got the burger, there was no bacon.

  9. Sociological imagination - Wikipedia

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    The lack of a sociological imagination can make people apathetic. This apathy expresses itself as a lack of indignation in scenarios dealing with moral horror—the Holocaust is a classic example of what happens when a society renders itself to the power of a leader and doesn't use sociological imagination.