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5. The Imaginative
11.5 Questions about the Fifth Subject,
or the Imaginative Faculty
88. Question: does the imaginative have
its own way of imagining imaginable
objects, just as the sensitive power has
its own way of sensing sense objects?
89. Question: what causes the imaginative
to draw species from sense data?
90. Question: what is the imaginative?
91. Does the imaginative have correlatives?
92. Does the imaginative increase itself by
increasing its act?
93. Is the imaginative a higher power than
the sensitive?
94. Does the imaginative have its own
specific instinct and appetite?
95. In which way does the sensitive
impede the imaginative's act?
96. Why is the imaginative not as powerful
in sense objects as is the sensitive? Go
to the subject of the imaginative.
97. Question: does the sensitive sense
the imaginative? The answer is that lower
powers do not act on higher powers.
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