Full Idea
When it occurs often in connection with the same item, ..memories which are many in number form a single experience.
Gist of Idea
Many memories of the same item form a single experience
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 100a05)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.73
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.
Related Idea
Idea 11245 Many memories make up a single experience [Aristotle]