 And even that point is not quite as general as my unqualified statement suggests. For one thing, Scotus believes that our intellect’s need for phantasms is a temporary state. It is only in this present life that the intellect must turn to phantasms; in the next life we will be able to do without them. For another thing, Scotus argues in his later works that even in this life we enjoy a kind of intellectual cognition that bypasses phantasms. He called it “intuitive cognition.”