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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness

5014	We can understand thinking occuring without imagination or sensation [Descartes]
	Full Idea: We can understand thinking without imagination or sensation, as is quite clear to anyone who attends to the matter.
	From: René Descartes (Principles of Philosophy [1646], I.53)
	A reaction: We may certainly take it that Descartes means if it is understandable then it is logically possible. To believe that thinking could occur without imagination strikes me as an astonishing error. I take imagination to be more central than understanding.