Sentence examples for discussion of memory from inspiring English sources
Schacter recognizes that tendency and structures his discussion of memory around seven of its "sins" -- transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.
After filling two hundred pages with a discussion of memory's imperfections and the harmful effects they can have on our lives, he anticipates an interesting question: Isn't this evidence of poor system design by natural selection?
One further note: Leibniz's discussion of memory in this passage and in others in the New Essays suggests another possible version of the higher-order interpretation in terms of memory rather than reflection.
(Goldman 2009, 323, has a good discussion of memory preservation in relation to cases like that of the belief that Illinois was Lincoln's home state. Goldman also discusses problems that may arise for the memory preservation account).
Much 20th-century philosophical discussion of memory addressed its status as a source of knowledge, either in the context of general sceptical concerns about knowledge of the past, or in investigating criteria for the reliability of particular memory beliefs (Owens 1999; and see the entry on epistemological problems of memory).
This entry's primary focus is on that part of contemporary philosophical discussion of memory which is continuous with the development of theories in the cognitive and social sciences: attention to these interdisciplinary fields of memory studies is driving renewed work on the topic.
In philosophical theories of personal identity, the suitability of a 'memory criterion' for deciding questions about identity over time has been much debated since John Locke's discussions of memory-swapping and amnesia (see the entry on personal identity).
Careful definitions are needed to keep discussion of virtual memory from being confusing.
It is the only comprehensive discussion of the memory techniques attributed to Simonides to have survived into the Middle Ages.
This theory of how the human mind derives originally from Aristotle's discussion of associative memory.
