IF AN ENTELECHY BE GRANTED, IT IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE BODY.

The sense-soul, which preserves the forms of sense-objects previously

perceived, must preserve them without the body. Otherwise, these forms

would inhere in the body like figures and corporeal shapes. Now, if

the forms inhered in the sense-soul in this manner, they could not

be received therein otherwise (than as corporeal impressions). That

is why, if we do grant the existence of an entelechy, it must be

inseparable from the body. Even the faculty of appetite, not indeed

that which makes us feel the need of eating and drinking, but that

which desires things that are independent of the body, could not either

be an entelechy.[78]

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