Question

This is a quote from Eight Chapters:
And the imaginative faculty is the power that retains the impressions of sensory objects after they are no longer present to the senses that perceived them, and combines some of them with others, and separates some from others. Therefore this faculty composes, from things it has perceived, things that it has never perceived at all, and that cannot be perceived, such as a person imagining an iron ship flying through the air, and a man whose head is in the heavens and whose feet are on the earth, and an animal with a thousand eyes, by way of example, and many other such impossibilities. The imaginative faculty combines them and produces them in the imagination. End quote.
Can one infer from here that Maimonides understood the laws of physics, as he or Aristotle understood them, to be necessary in the same way as logic?
In my opinion, you can’t say this is only because in his time an airplane flying in the air wasn’t technologically possible, because from the parts I highlighted it sounds like for him these are in the category of impossibilities.
Or maybe I’m missing something?
Of course I need to reach my own conclusions and think independently and not be bound by what others wrote, etc. etc. .. it’s just a debate over the plain meaning of the words between me and myself 🙂 .
Thanks.