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On the Imagination |
Excerpted from Dux Dubitantium 1.72 |
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Therefore you should know, whoever examines this book, if you know the nature of the soul and its faculties, and if you know that the truth of anything is according to its own existence. I have already let you know that understanding of the imaginative faculty finds [is found???] in most living or animal things. For that a perfected living thing, namely a thing having a heart, proves [is proved?] in the essence of that imaginative faculty. Yet it does not know this through that faculty. Nor is the operation of that faculty like the operation of the intellect, but it is through another way, since the intellect [is] what separates composite things, and knows their parts, and understands them, and detaches them in its own truth and its own causes. Apprehendet ex una re multas, inter quas est differentia in intellectu, sicut differentia duorum singularium hominum in existentia quantum ad praedictam virtutem. Intellectu vero cognoscuntur universalia, in quibus conmeniunt [comeunt?] singularia. Neque verificatur demonstratio, nisi in universalibus. Intellectu vero cognoscunt substantiale et accidentale. Virtus vero supradicta non habet aliquam istarum opinionum. Quoniam ipsa non apprehendit nisi singulare concretum. Sicut apprehendit a sensibus, vel coniungit diversa in essentia. Et componit unam partem cum alia, vel in corpore quocumque, vel in virtutibus corporalibus. Sicut si imaginator imaginetur hominem cum capite equi. Et quod habeat alas et similia istis. Et illa vocat cogitatio falsa. Qua nullo modo convenit essentia rei, et talis cogitator nullo modo potest recedere a materia in apprehensione sua. Licet spoliet formam quamcumque in fine spoliationis. Et ideo demonstratio non est in cogitatione. |