====== Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 25-31) — What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination? (Guthrie) ======




G. What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination?


  * cosmic questions about memory depend on exact definition of what memory is.


  * memory inapplicable except to beings subject to limitations of time.


  * there is a timeless memory consisting of self-consciousness.


  * definition of memory depends on whether it belongs to the soul or organism.


  * the psychology of sensation.


  * in any case memory is peculiar to the soul and body


  * that the soul is incarnate is not the cause of her possessing memory.


  * memory belongs to the soul alone.


  * memory belongs both to the divine soul, and to that derived from the world-soul.


  * what the rational soul, if separated, would remember of life.


  * memory does not belong to appetite, because it may be reduced to sensation.


  * what appetite keeps is an affection, but not a memory.


  * memory does not belong to the faculty of sensation.


  * memory does not belong exclusively to the power of perception.


  * memory is not identical with feeling or reasoning.


  * memory belongs to imagination.


  * intellectual conceptions are not entirely preserved by imagination.


  * the two kinds of memory imply two kinds of imagination.


  * of the two imaginations one always predominates or overshadows the other.


  * partition of the fund of memory between the two souls.