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Single Idea 18734

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

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 Reference

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.