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

18734	If you remember wrongly, then there must be some other criterion than your remembering [Wittgenstein]
	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.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], C VII)
	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.