Why Sensation Is Not Enough for Goal Directed Activity

Sensation also is a kind of cognition. Sensation and intellect are both two kinds of cognition. After that we can ask why sensation is not enough. You need intellect. Let's stay with the example of the arrow. An archer shoots an arrow toward a target. What's the goal? Well, you might want to be more precise and say it's the arrows hitting the target. I think Thomas can accept both answers. But he would say in either case the arrows having a tendency toward the goal would not be possible without someone's cognition somehow influencing the arrow.