of the body …
Once this more evident proposition is established, the falsity of its less evident and weaker contrary becomes certain.”
He said:
“This is because no corporeal faculty in us can have a locus larger than the entire body of a single human being.
“They have said that its locus is a small part of that body, placing the imaginative faculty in a portion of the brain substance situated in the anterior cavity of the head, or in a portion of the cerebral spirit corresponding specifically to that part of the brain.
“Yet we apprehend many imagined things and conceive of many particular existing things, retaining them in our minds and contemplating them. A single one of these may be many times larger than our entire body—how, then, could it fit within the aforementioned portion of one of its parts?”
He said:
“In his final argument, he sought a body through which black and white could be imagined, so as to locate each in a part distinct from that in which he located the other. How, then, did he disregard magnitude? We perceive colours in bodies only together with their magnitudes, so that when we see them again