memory

Relationships

• retainsForgetfulness

  description

  Paradoxically, the narrator concludes that forgetfulness must be retained by memory for it to be recognized when named or remembered.

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  then forgetfulness is retained by memory.

• receivesImage (mental representation)

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  Memory is the faculty that takes in and stores images from things that were once present to the senses, allowing their recall in absence.

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  my memory received from them images, which being present with me, I might look on and bring back in my mind

• is_required_forLost Thing (concept)

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  The act of recognizing something that was found, whether lost from sight or memory, fundamentally requires remembering it.

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  nor can we recognise it, unless we remember it.

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  2026-03-02T21:55:10.828Z

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• receivesImages of Things Perceived

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  Memory acts as a great harbour that receives and stores the mental images derived from sensory perceptions.

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  All these doth that great harbour of the memory receive in her numberless secret and inexpressible windings, to be forthcoming, and brought out at need; each entering in by his own gate, and there laid up. Nor yet do the things themselves enter in; only the images of the things perceived are there in readiness, for thought to recall.

• is_a_power_ofNature (of the individual)

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  The author asserts that memory is an inherent power belonging to his own nature, though its full extent is not comprehended.

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  yet is this a power of mine, and belongs unto my nature

• retainsLiberal Sciences

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  The memory's unmeasurable capacity allows it to retain all knowledge learned from the liberal sciences.

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  Here also is all, learnt of the liberal sciences and as yet unforgotten

• storesAbstract Concepts

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  Memory holds abstract concepts, such as the three kinds of questions, as the 'things themselves' rather than sensory images, even though they were not perceived by the body's senses.

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  yet in my memory have I laid up not their images, but themselves.

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  2026-03-02T21:55:16.472Z

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• storesImages of Things

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  Memory serves as the repository for mental images of past events, allowing them to be recalled and related.

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  when past facts are related, there are drawn out of the memory, not the things themselves which are past, but words which, conceived by the images of the things

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  2026-03-02T21:55:27.502Z

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• same_as01KJR8RZTAZKK3X4F1SH1M5994

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  0.95

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  2026-03-02T21:55:56.226Z

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  kg-dedupe-resolver

  reasoning

  This candidate shares the label 'memory' and its description 'The faculty by which the mind stores and retrieves information, knowledge, and experiences' perfectly aligns with the source entity's core function and description. The type 'philosophical_concept' is also consistent with the source's 'cognitive_faculty' in this context.

• same_as01KJR8S1GECQ49M99VZRZFYQRT

  confidence

  0.95

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  2026-03-02T21:55:56.226Z

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  reasoning

  This candidate also has the label 'memory' and its description 'The 'present of things past', a faculty of the soul that holds what has already occurred' is a classic philosophical definition of memory, directly matching the source's function of recalling past experiences. The type 'psychological_concept' is compatible.

• same_as01KJR8RDPGMTFMSJTZYJW998ZH

  confidence

  0.98

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  2026-03-02T21:55:56.226Z

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  reasoning

  This candidate is a very strong match. It has the label 'memory', and its description uses the exact metaphor 'great harbour' and mentions 'innumerable images' from sensory perceptions, which are explicitly present in the source entity's properties and relationships. The type 'faculty' is a broader but compatible category for 'cognitive_faculty'.