Full Idea
Many recollections of the same thing perform the function of a single experience.
Gist of Idea
Many memories make up a single experience
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0980b28)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.4
A Reaction
This beautifully simple remark seems to me to be extremely important if we are going to understand the nature of thought. Personally I think it endorses the 'database' view of how the mind works (as a set of labelled 'files'). See Fodor's 'LOT2'.