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The Nature of Creative Thought - Part 9

In exercising this facility to combine and recombine elements into a new whole, there are several things that "go on" in the creative mind. Some of them are individual steps in the thinking process; others may be used in combination. Where they are in combination, it usually is in an alternating or "oscillating" form. There have been many attempts to assign specific words as names for these steps, but, because of their nature, there are still some questions about what, exactly, they should be called. In this examination, we shall describe the characteristics in these terms: Use of the Familiar; Ability to Hypothesize; Ability to Suspend; Involvement; Withdrawal; Recognition of Autonomy; Permis­sion to Develop.

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