Plato, Philebus, section 34a

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[34a] apply the term want of perception to that which you are now calling forgetfulness.

Protarchus
I understand.

Socrates
And the union of soul and body in one common affection and one common motion you may properly call perception.

Protarchus
Very true.

Socrates
Then do we now understand what we mean by perception?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
I think, then, that memory may rightly be defined as the preservation of perception.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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