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Footnote 5:

Philebus, 34.

Footnote 6:

Jowett’s Translation.

Footnote 7:

For references see Zeller’s Plato and the Older Academy, pp. 126 and 407. Cf. also Siebeck: Geschichte der Psychologie.

Footnote 8:

For the many passages in which the words μνήμη, μνημονεύω, μνημονικος, μημων μ@ν@ήμων occur in Plato, ¬conf¬ see Ast. Lexicon Platonicum, II. pp. 356–357. For ἀναμιμνήσκω and ἀνάμνησις cf. the same, Vol. I. pp. 151–152.

Footnote 9:

De Memoria et Reminiscentia. For a list of commentaries, see Hamilton’s edition of Reid’s Works, p. 891.

Footnote 10:

Touch and Taste according to A. reside in the heart. Sight, Sound, and Smell in the brain, but they are indirectly connected with the heart.

Footnote 11:

De Somno. 1. 454.

ἡ δὲ λεγομένη αἴσθησις ὡς ἐνέργεια κίνησίς τις διὰ τοῦ σώματος τῆς ψυχῆς ἐστιν.

Footnote 12:

See Wallace; Aristotle’s Psychology, Introduction, pp. 93 & 94.

Footnote 13:

In other words, abstract ideas and the like are reproducible only so far as they imply images.

Footnote 14:

Quoted from G. H. Lewes’s work on Aristotle, p. 257.

Footnote 15:

Συμβαίνουσι δ’ αἱ ἀναμνήσεις, ἐπειδὴ πέφυκεν ἡ κίνησις ἥδε γενέσθαι μετὰ τήνδε. This passage is obscure, but it is generally understood to refer to the sequence of motions or the corresponding ideas, and this interpretation agrees with the context. See Hamilton’s Edition of Reid, pp. 892–893, and Themistius’ paraphrase of De Memoria, quoted by Hamilton, p. 893–894; also Siebeck, Geschichte der Psychologie, Zweite Abtheilung, p. 77; Grote’s Aristotle, p. 215; Grant’s Aristotle, p. 170; Wallace’s Aristotle’s Psychology, Introduction, p. 95.

Footnote 16:

Cf. Siebeck, Geschichte der Psychologie, Zweite Abtheilung, p. 77.

Footnote 17:

The Greek is as follows:

διὸ καὶ τὸ ἐφεξῆς θηρεύομεν νοήσαντες ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἢ ἄλλου τινὸς καὶ αφ’ ὁμοίου, ἢ ἐναντίου, ἢ τοῦ σύνεγγυς διὰ τοῦτο γίνεται ἡ ἀνάμνησις. αἱ γὰρ κινήσεις τούτων τῶν μὲν αἱ αὐταί, τῶν δ’ ἅμα, τῶν δὲ μέρος ἔχουσιν ὥστε τὸ λοιπὸν μικρὸν ὃ ἐκινήθη μετ’ ἐκεῖνο.

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