then they claimed that the power in which the images of the senses are imprinted by the five senses preserves those images so that they remain after acceptance and the thing preserves the thing not by the power by which it is accepted for water is accepted but not preserved and wax is accepted by its moisture and preserved by its dryness.
ثم زعموا أن القوة التي تنطبع فيها صور المحسوسات بالحواس الخمس تحفظ تلك الصور حتى تبقى بعد القبول، والشيء يحفظ الشيء لا بالقوة التي بها يقبل، فإن الماء يقبل ولا يحفظ والشمع يقبل برطوبته ويحفظ بيبوسته