This emotion would be dependent upon past experience, and would therefore be a mnemic phenomenon according to the definition. |
It is therefore a mnemic phenomenon according to our definition. |
The principle of the prima facie credibility of mnemic presentation of past experience can't itself be justified inductively for Lewis, on pain of circularity. |
For it is in the seed that these factors must be, whether they be mnemic or physical. |
What we know is that memory, and mnemic phenomena generally, can be disturbed or destroyed by changes in the brain. |
The only reason that could be validly alleged against mnemic causation would be that, in fact, all the phenomena can be explained without it. |