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.
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;
They compose, then, first a certain art concerning the things we call impressions, and define both the force and the kinds of them, among these what kind a thing is that can be perceived and comprehended — in just as many words as the Stoics.
that impressions which are false cannot be perceived;
Meditations
Mental impressions or appearances (phantasiai) that the mind must judge and master
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?
Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present lot, to deal justly with the men about you, and to work with art upon your present impression, so that nothing uncomprehended may slip in.
Blot out the impression.