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    It is not the case that The Representative Theory of Memory (RTM) leads to skepticism about the past

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    • 1.On the RTM, all that one is directly aware of in memory are ideas, not past events themselves
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    • 2.Justifying beliefs about the past on the RTM requires an argument from premises about present ideas to a conclusion about how the past actually was
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    • 3.No such argument from present ideas to past reality is available, for the same reason that no argument from ideas of sense to external world reality is available
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