Aristotle on the Rationality of Recollection: Reasoning, Inquiry, and Telic Sensitivity
In On Memory and Recollection , Aristotle makes the curious remark that recollection is ‘a sort of reasoning’ ( sullogismos tis ) (453a10). The remark is especially puzzling in light of the automatic and associative character of what he takes to be typical recollective processes, since these features can create...