They assessed their volunteers' faculties of memory, attention, visuo-spatial awareness and language.
"I think my brother inherited from him the faculties of memory, imagination and audacity — all virtues that were useless under the Soviet system.
A majority of the rounds present proof of the contestants' faculties of memory: for instance, the kids, having studied an exhaustive list of an airline's flight routes, were directed to name cities where a plane might stop en route from Boise to Rio de Janeiro.
By learning geometry, one was expected to improve his ability to reason; studying Latin was held to "strengthen" the so-called faculty of memory, and so on.
In the Advancement of Learning (1605), he charted the map of knowledge: history, which depends on the human faculty of memory, poetry, which depends on imagination, and philosophy, which depends on reason.
Just as the faculty of perception takes as its objects mind-independent bodies, the faculty of memory takes as its objects events in the past.
The canonization of memory in his set of first principles indicates that Reid does not believe that the reliability of the faculty of memory can be justified in a non-circular way since any attempt to demonstrate its reliability will presuppose its reliability (EIP 6.4, 481; IHM 2.3, 28).
Fanny, the eldest, is of a quiet, modest, unshowy disposition, somewhat given to indolence, which is her greatest fault, but sober, observing, peculiarly clear and distinct in the faculty of memory, and disposed to exercise her own thoughts and follow her own judgment.
The faculties of perception, memory, testimony, introspection, reasoning, and so on, typically generate beliefs on the basis of sufficient evidence, and we usually regard these faculties as malfunctioning, maladjusted, or misused when they generate beliefs in other ways.
Subjective unity is captured by the notion of "common sense" such that our faculties of sensation, memory, imagination, and thought work in harmony, while objective unity is captured by the notion of "recognition" such that it is the same object that is sensed, remembered, imagined, and thought.
AD progression continues with increasing loss of memory and faculties ending in death [ 2].
