There are many instances where this holds true, but this depends on the definition of imagination. For instance, we can examine a broad topic, college majors. This example has two sides: Liberal Arts vs. Math, Science, and Technology.
I'm an English-Teaching major in a Lit 110 class. Of course I believe that literature, English, and writing contain substantial amounts of imagination, but who's to say that Mathematicians or Scientists don't have imagination? Can math, science, and technology be considered art? In their case it depends on whether their work goes beyond logic to solve problems, create solutions, and make their conclusions useful. Math, science, and technology field-workers use imagination because they constantly use inductive reasoning to study or create...something.
Essentially, inductive reasoning is assuming. Logically, there's a problem with induction. Therefore in this case, if inductive reasoning isn't logical then studiers of math, science, and technology are using their imagination because their ideas are being conjured in their minds, on paper, and then played out thereafter.
Hence, math, science, and technology can go beyond logic to create new facts on which people rely. The problem is that facts are created because of imagination.
Math, science, and technology has a lot of effort put into it, but it doesn't always have the facts and the studiers set out to find them. Alike writers of literature, imagination is used to create stories, to create finished products.
A fact explains a phenomenon and a book explains a story. They're both a part of our world and they're both useful, but who's to say that imagination is declining? To a liberal artist like myself, imagination may just be becoming more polluted because math, science, and technology cannot find all the facts. People either want all the facts or they just let go.
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