On Memory and Reminiscence

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), is one of most important philosophers of all time and remain a fountain of inspiration for modern thinkers. His works included logic, physics, politics, metaphysics, rhetoric and zoology, biology, poetic tragedy and ethics that are still relevant today. He also preferred to define things in more concrete and scientific manners and seemed to always have had explanations for everything around him. On his short treatise involving memory, he believed that memory was neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. There is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past.