impressions
“phantasiai”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
impression · the impression · the things we call impressions
in the texts
Lucullus
The mental representations (phantasiai/visa) that arise from perception, at the center of the dispute over whether any can be reliably distinguished as true.
that impressions which are false cannot be perceived;
stamped and signed and moulded from that which is, just as it is.
and in single matters, which they divide into the smallest parts, they wish to make out that to all those things which are true impressions there are joined false ones which differ in nothing from the true;
Meditations
Mental impressions or appearances (phantasiai) that the mind must judge and master
Blot out the impression.
What, then, are you doing here, O impression?
How else can your principles be deadened, except by the quenching of the impressions that answer to them — impressions which it is in your power continually to rekindle?