The analysis also asks what faculty brings two conceptions together. Reason can recognize a shared relation or an appropriate opposition; imagination or estimation can also cause conceptions to occur together in the mind.
The detailed forms of rational and imaginative/estimative links require their own treatment. For now the key is that connection is not reducible to similar words or to the identity of external objects.
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Waṣl: Agreement of Form and Function, and the Unifying Relation
The analysis also asks what faculty brings two conceptions together. Reason can recognize a shared relation or an appropriate opposition; imagination or estimation can also cause conceptions to occur together in the mind.
The detailed forms of rational and imaginative/estimative links require their own treatment. For now the key is that connection is not reducible to similar words or to the identity of external objects.