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Remember when Socrates proposes his second way, a way of LOGOS, but warns Simmias and Cebes that he does not mean by LOGOS “images” but rather “imageless thought.”
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Well ... yeah ... sure ... I remember that [looking away, bobs head in over-confidence].
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Aristotle rejects this in the De Anima. All thought requires images. At De Anima 432a10 he writes, “even when we think speculatively, we must have some mental image [PHANTASMA] of what we think.”
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Now hold on one cotton-pickin' minute! In De Anima 430a, Aristotle had just written THIS ...
Thought, as we have so far described it, is what it is by virtue of becoming all things, while there is another which is what it is by virtue of making all things: this is a sort of positive state like light; for in a sense light makes potential colours into actual colors.
Thought in this latter sense is separable, impassible, unmixed, since it is in its essential nature activity.
In other words, consciousness is active awareness, not passive imagery.
Hmph!
Ed
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