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.