This position seems strange because an immaterial existent...

This position seems strange because an immaterial existent, even if an imaginal form which is barzakhī , has no relation to material existents, and cannot be considered a locus for them. However, there is a strong possibility that a mistake has been made in the narration or translation of this position, or that what is meant here by the term immaterial ( mujarrad ) is not the technical sense.

This view is supported by the fact that Mīr Dāmād has denied that Plato held this position.1 According to this conjecture, one may interpret the position to claim that space is the volume of the cosmos considered separately from it (and in this sense is ‘abstracted’ from the cosmos). As for the view reported to have been held by Aristotle, it is held that…