Remarks & Admonitions: Chapter#3

"If every existent were such that it enters imagination and the senses,
then the senses and imagination would also enter the senses and imagination.
The intellect which is the true judge would also enter imagination.
But, after these principles, [we find that] no love, shyness, fear,
anger, courage, and cowardice is among that which enters the senses
and imagination, [even though] they are among that which attaches
to sensible things. What, then, do you think of existent things, if their
essences lie outside the order and attachments of the sensibles?"

 According to Avicenna Existence is not just confined to that which is capable of apprehension by the senses or the faculty of imagination, because if the contrary is held to be true then the senses must also necessarily be capable of apprehension by themselves if they truly exist for instance is the faculty of sight exists so it must be able to apprehend itself, but we know that sight does not perceive itself; similarly if the faculty of hearing exists so it must be able hear itself but we know that this is not the case; nevertheless it is undeniable that both sight and hearing exist as faculties within the soul; this is another proof if the fact that existence is not just sensible in character.

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