Sentence examples for objects of memory from inspiring English sources

While Aristotle, speaking on memory and recollection, notes:       It is obvious, then, that memory belongs to that part of the souls to which imagination belongs; all things which are imaginable are essentially objects of memory and those which necessarily involve imagination are objects of memory incidentally.

The objects of memory are events in the past.

By contrast, Reid holds that the direct objects of memory and perception are extra-mental.

On Reid's view, the objects of memory are the events presented in past apprehensions.

First, Hume's account of memory sees the objects of memory as ideas.

In particular, the objects of memory are not the past apprehensions themselves but that which is presented in the past apprehensions, namely, the original event (Inquiry, 28).

"The time after a show is just as interesting to me," he said the other day, "because then it becomes an object of memory, and its meanings change".

Thus the object of memory is the thing remembered and the object of the imagination is the thing imagined".

It would be more helpful to say that the object of memory is the thing as remembered, the object of imagination the thing as imagined.

Reid claims that while, necessarily, the object of memory is in the past at the time it is remembered, nevertheless "the remembrance of it is a particular act of the mind which now exists, and of which we are conscious".

In Averroes' epistemology, the term ma'nâ has a specific meaning as the object of memory and a broader meaning as the abstracted content of sensory, imaginative or intelligible forms (Black 1996, 166).