is arrogance, and his spitting is poetry. Arrogance puffs a person up until he is enveloped in fantasy, although in reality he is like an inflated vessel containing nothing.

Yet using the terms “imagining” and “supposing” in this sense is akin to using “false belief,” “conjecture,” and “ignorance” for what does not correspond to reality, even though belief as a general category may be true and constitute knowledge. These terms are also often applied to what a person imagines or supposes that does have an external reality. In such cases, both the imagining and supposing themselves, and the terms describing them, are true and correspond to reality. Examples include picturing in one’s mind what one has perceived through sight or the other senses, and conceiving in one’s mind attributes one has come to know. For some physicians and philosophers adopt the convention that imagining concerns forms, while supposing concerns the meanings within them.

The terms “imagining” and “supposing” encompass both kinds: those that correspond to reality and those that do not. Likewise, the term “report” encompasses both true and false reports, the term “speech” encompasses truth and falsehood, and the term “will”