Critique and Survey of Avicenna's Theory on Continuous and Discontinuous Imagination

Approving the faculty of Imagination has related to the acceptance of the world of Imagination and accepting the Immateriality of one of them concludes the Immateriality of the other. Accordingly, Ibn Sina who believes in the materiality of the faculty of imagination, refuses the imaginal world. Having direction and relation of the imaginaries is the base of Ibn Sina’s proofs to deny the immateriality of the Imagination and disapproving the world of Imagination. At this article, the author proves that this character belongs to material objects as they are temporal-spatial things which cannot be found in the imagination which impossible to be perceived sensually as well. According to Ibn Sina it is not feasible that something is characterized by some material and certain immaterial attributes. Proving substantial motion in material things approves that every species and each material individual are able to have different material and immaterial individuals by moving from material stage to imagination and from it to the intellects.