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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense”

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, Part I, Ch. II, 'Of Imagination' (1651 text (original spelling))

Portrait of Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes's reductive definition: mental images are the fading residue of sensory motion.

Citation: "Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. II, 'Of Imagination' (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q3)

Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.

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