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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

9067	Many memories of the same item form a single experience [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: When it occurs often in connection with the same item, ..memories which are many in number form a single experience.
	From: Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 100a05)
	A reaction: This is Aristotle at his most empirical. He is not describing an operation of the understanding, but a process of association. The process he alludes to is at the heart of the abstractionist view of concept-formation.