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    It is not the case that The Humean version of the Representational Theory of Memory (RTM) should be rejected.

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    • 1.The Humean RTM presupposes a more robust variety of memory than it can allow for.
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    • 2.The Humean RTM fails to shed light on the nature of memory because it presupposes what it cannot account for.
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    • 3.The Humean RTM is satisfied by many things that are not memory.
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    • 1.Hume's theory reduces memory to faint copies of impressions, but this cannot distinguish genuine recall from mere imagination of past events.
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    • 2.Without a causal-historical link to the original experience, no purely intrinsic feature like 'vivacity' can ground the distinction between remembering and imagining.
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    • 3.Martin and Deutscher's causal theory shows that what makes a mental state a memory is its appropriate causal origin, not any phenomenal property Hume can invoke.
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    • 1.The Humean RTM cannot account for the temporal content of memory—the felt sense that one is recalling a past event rather than merely representing it.
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    • 2.Tulving's concept of episodic memory as 'mental time travel' requires autonoetic consciousness, a first-person temporal indexing that purely representational content cannot supply.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot explain why memory presents its content as past-directed fails to capture the defining phenomenological and cognitive character of remembering.
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