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upon it yet, and let us think of a human body upon it as it was 

 in that state. Would it be a falsehood then to assert that the 

 human body of our imagination would exist in actuality, when 

 the cause would come to bring it into actual existence? Who 

 ever has brains in his head must know that the existence itself of 

 the human body is not because the body is in actuality, but because it was 

 conceived in the mind before it came into actual existence. 



Upon the above errors of Aristotle, of Descartes and of 

 many others came Emanuel Kant, warning us that &quot;Man must 

 not conclude, that a thing can be in actuality or in realization, 

 because it is possible to conceive it in the mind.&quot; His argu 

 ments are : The idea of a bird with three or five wings is a 

 mental possibility, for it has no refutation in the mind; but such 

 a bird in actuality is an impossibility, for it is contrary to the 

 laws of motion. Thus, no conclusions should be drawn from 

 mental possibilities about the possibility of actuality. This 

 argument, however, contains its falsehood in itself. The idea of a 

 bird with three or five wings, which is an impossibility in act 

 uality, because the law of motion is opposed to it, is certainly 

 impossible according to the mind, that the mind itself judges 

 that such a bird is an impossibility, because it is contrary to the 

 laws of motion. The mind is not a lot of- abstract imaginations 

 gathered in the brain with all nonsenses and mixed up with 

 each other, as Kant opines, but the quiddity of the mind consists 

 of the intellectual laws of all things, which exist in actuality that 

 they should exist according to the laws of the mind. So also 

 according to Kant, there can be two opposite motions in the 

 mental conception, while the existence of such two motions in 

 actuality is impossible. But this too is false, for the mind itself 

 asserts that the actual existence of two opposite motions is 

 impossible, the mental conception of such two motions is also 

 an impossibility. And so it goes with all his arguments. The 

 truth itself is, that the mind itself is but the image of all com. 

 pound objects that can be in existence according to the laws of 

 the mind and through the laws of the mind and not through false 

 imaginations, which came to the brain by the different effects 

 of the objects in their different appearances to the senses. 



