BOOK TWELVE
CHAPTER V
5. When our thought seeks something for our sense to fasten to [in this concept of unformed matter], and when it says to itself, “It is not an intelligible form, such as life or justice, since it is the material for bodies; and it is not a former perception, for there is nothing in the invisible and unformed which can be seen and felt”–while human thought says such things to itself, it may be attempting either to know by being ignorant or by knowing how not to know.
