ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the perceptual memory, to compare it with perception, and to consider some of the epistemological problems to which it gives rise. A man, like Lord Macaulay, with a very quick and retentive verbal memory, may be able to repeat sentences or sets of nonsense-syllables which he has met with only once. George IV used to say that he remembered leading a charge at the Battle of Waterloo, and there is every reason to believe that he was never within a hundred miles of the battle. Assuming that the First Gentleman in Europe was correctly describing his state of mind, he was subject of a situation which has just as good a right to be called a memory-situation as a veridical memory of the Duke of Wellington on the same subject-matter. Naive Realism is merely a theory about memory, just as the Sensum Theory is a theory about perception.
