On 4/30/2018 2:50 PM, Helmut Raulien wrote:
I think, that a memory of the past is not the same as the past itself
But that is true of everything. Our experience of anything and everything (past or present) is not the same as the thing itself. What Peirce added: " To any memory [of] the past, there attaches a certain color, -- a certain quality of feeling..." Two different people who have similar memories of a past event may have totally different feelings about it. Those feelings cause them to highlight, emphasize, or interpret the event in very different ways. John
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