Now, each of them may be spoken of from two points of view, i.e. either as actual or as potential.
We have in On the Soul explained in what sense the colour, or sound, regarded as actualized [for
sensation] is the same as, and in what sense it is different from, the correlative sensation, the
actual seeing or hearing. The point of our present discussion is, therefore, to determine what each
sensible object must be in itself, in order to be perceived as it is in actual consciousness.