Introduction: Knowing and Not Knowing

Piero Formica
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Piero Formica: Maynooth University

A chapter in The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators, 2015, pp 1-5 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1843, as he worked on his novel Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens wrote to his friend John Forster about the process of creativity: As to the way in which these characters have opened out, that is, to me, one of the most surprising processes of the mind in this sort of invention. Given what one knows, what one does not know springs up; and I am as absolutely certain of its being true, as I am of the law of gravitation….1

Keywords: Empty Space; Creative Process; Text Line; Path Finder; Business Creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137492470_1

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