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Full Idea
If you remember wrongly, then there must be some other criterion than your remembering. If you admit another test, then your memory itself is not the test.
Gist of Idea
If you remember wrongly, then there must be some other criterion than your remembering
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], C VII)
Book Ref
Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Lectures in Cambridge 1930-32', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Blackwell 1980], p.83
A Reaction
If I fear that I am remembering some private solitary event wrongly, there is no other criterion to turn to, so I'm stuck. Sometimes dubious memories are all we have.