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]