Key Arguments

• Asserts retention of ‘impressions or traces of objects,’ grounding the persistence of images and memory.
• Cross-references earlier claims about images and traces (cf. II. Post. v.; note II. xvii.), tying bodily changes to imaginative persistence.

Source Quotes

II. The human body can undergo many changes, and, nevertheless, retain the impressions or traces of objects (cf. II. Post. v.), and, consequently, the same images of things (see note II. xvii.). PROP.

Key Concepts

• The human body can undergo many changes, and, nevertheless, retain the impressions or traces of objects (cf. II. Post. v.), and, consequently, the same images of things (see note II. xvii.).

Context

Ethics, Part III, POSTULATES (lines 1749–1876); basis for the stability of imagination despite bodily change