memory
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- contents
- knowledge, reasons, laws, affections, images
- description
- The mental faculty responsible for storing and retrieving information, experiences, and concepts. It is described as a repository where knowledge is laid up and from which it can be recalled.
- function
- storage and retrieval
- relationship_to_mind
- often used synonymously with mind, but distinct in function
Relationships
- containsthings
- description
- Memory serves as a repository for various pieces of information, some of which may initially be unknown, scattered, and neglected before being consciously recalled.
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- contain at random and unarranged, be laid up at hand as it were in that same memory where before they lay unknown, scattered and neglected
- containsReasons and Laws of Numbers and Dimensions
- description
- The faculty of memory holds abstract principles such as the reasons and laws of numbers and dimensions, which are not perceived through physical senses.
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- The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any bodily sense impressed
- containsAffections of the Mind
- description
- Memory stores the emotional states or affections of the mind, though it holds them differently than the mind itself experiences them.
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- The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them
- is_part_ofMind
- description
- The text suggests that memory is an integral component of the mind, often used synonymously in common parlance, indicating a close relationship.
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- this very memory itself is mind (for when we give a thing in charge, to be kept in memory, we say, "See that you keep it in mind"; and when we forget, we say, "It did not come to my mind," and, "It slipped out of my mind," calling the memory itself the mind
- containsPerturbations of the Mind
- description
- Memory stores the four primary emotional disturbances—desire, joy, fear, and sorrow—allowing them to be recalled.
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- out of my memory I bring it, when I say there be four perturbations of the mind, desire, joy, fear, sorrow
- containsImage (of things in memory)
- description
- Memory stores mental images of things, whether physically present or not, allowing for their recognition and recall.
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- but their images to my memory. I name a bodily pain, yet it is not present with me, when nothing aches: yet unless its image were present to my memory
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:21.445Z
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