Single Idea 2791

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory]

Full Idea

Eliminative phenomenalism about memory holds that there is no such thing as the past, just certain present experiences; reductive phenomenalism holds that there is a past, but it is no more than a complex of those present experiences.

Gist of Idea

Phenomenalism about memory denies the past, or reduces it to present experience

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 12.4)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.190


Related Idea

Idea 22909 We judge memories to be of the past because the events cause the memories [Bardon]