MEMORY DOES NOT BELONG EXCLUSIVELY TO THE POWER OF PERCEPTION.

Is the power of perception common to the reasonable soul and to the

irrational soul, and will we grant that it possesses the memory of

sense-objects and of intelligible things? To recognize that it is one

and the same power which equally perceives both kinds of things, is

already to take one step towards the solution of the problem. But if we

divide this power into two, there will nevertheless still be two kinds

of memory; further, if we allow two kinds of memory to each of the two

souls (the rational and the irrational), there will be four kinds of

memory.

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