PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Through sense perception, we form an intellectual conception of that which we perceive.
- Though the sense perception ceases, the intellectual conception continues.
“As the act of sense perception is not the sensed thing itself, so the act of the intellect is not itself the form understood or conceived intellectually. Understanding is an activity of the soul by virtue of which it is said to understand, but the form toward which understanding is directed is a kind of image or construct which the mind fashions for itself at will, like those imaginary cities seen in dreams or the form of a projected building which the architect conceives after the manner of a blueprint. This construct is not something one can call either substance or accident.”