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Quotation from Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle
“Memory is, therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time”
Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Memory and Reminiscence, Part 1, trans. J. I. Beare (1908)
Aristotle's definition: what makes an image a memory is its relation to past time.
Citation: "Memory is, therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time" — Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Memory and Reminiscence, Part 1, trans. J. I. Beare (1908). (id aristotle-parva-naturalia-q2)
