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Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle's On memory and recollectionand Plotinus' On perception and memory (IV 6); the latter also wrote at length about memory in his Problems connected with the soul (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). Both authors treat memoryas a "modest" faculty:they assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs; and basic cognitive capacities are assumed on which memory depends. In particular, both theories use "phantasia" (representation) to explain memory.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory
• Author: Richard A. H. King
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9783110214628
• ISBN: 3110214628
• ID: 12565568
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2009

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