![]() This is why the meditator concludes that the cause(s) of an idea must be more perfect than the idea itself. In contrast, it is truly impossible to imagine a color that does not exist (and is not just a combination of other colors that do). Even the wildest fantasies are just new combinations of things that already exist: for instance, one-legged tie-dye unicorns don’t exist, but the idea of them is made up of ideas about elements that do exist, like legs, colors, horns, and so on. The Meditator isn’t denying that we can imagine fictional things-instead, he’s saying that reality provides the building blocks for our ideas, and we cannot have an idea with more parts than we have building blocks. ![]() ![]() The basic idea here is that the kinds of things that actually exist determine the kinds of ideas we can have it’s impossible to think of a thing that has absolutely nothing to do with reality. ![]()
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