from matter, and without stripping them at all of material adjuncts, the matter is clear and straightforward.
These forms are apprehended only while their material substrates exist and are present. An existing, present body can be present only to a body. It cannot be present to something that is not a body, for it has no relation to an incorporeal faculty in respect of presence and absence. Something occupying a place cannot stand in a relation of presence or absence to something that occupies no place. Rather, presence requires a spatial position and proximity or distance between what is present and that in whose presence it is. If what is present is a body, this is impossible unless that in whose presence it is is a body or is within that in whose presence it is. If what is present is a body, this is impossible unless that in whose presence it is is a body or is within a body.”
He said:
“As for that which apprehends particular forms in complete abstraction from matter, but without any abstraction whatsoever from material adjuncts—as imagination does—the only conceivable account is that the imagined form is imprinted in it within a body, with the imprint shared between it and the body.”
He said:
“Let the image imprinted in the imagination be an image of