for Descartes the possibility of an entity - a material entity - is not given in the senses
yet he wants to say it is not imagined
the possibility of an entity he regards as an intellectual apprehension
not a matter of image
granted a thing's possibility goes beyond its present - given reality
but is this anymore than to say
our imagination covers what is before us and what might be - could be - what is
possible
what is possible - is not what is - imagined - rather what can be imagined
do we need a further faculty of intellectual apprehension - why can't
imagination do the job?
could it not be argued that the presentation of different images at
different times - leads naturally to the notion of possibility
that imagination just is consciousness of possibility -
and that this in turn is based on awareness of reality?
and images are just this awareness?
