Abstract
Some argue that Aristotle sees imagination (φαντασία) as a faculty of creating mental images, some argue that he sees it as a faculty of interpreting perceptual contents, others ascribe Aristotle's imagination to the faculty of perception while maintaining that it deals mainly with non-standard perceptual experiences, and still others see it as a faculty of synthesizing the sense data we have acquired. In this paper I argue that Aristotle in De anima 3.3 sees imagination as a post-perceptual faculty in virtue of which the perceiver gives her or his interpretation of standard perceptual contents, and that the mental images we create is precisely what we interpret the perceptual contents to mean.