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« La mémoire, telle que le sens commun l’entend et que la psychologie ordinaire la décrit, loin d’être la mémoire tout entière, n’en est qu’un cas particulier, le plus élevé et le plus complexe. »
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This says that everyday memory—the kind common sense and ordinary psychology usually describe—is not the whole of memory. It is one particular form within a broader category. Calling it “the highest and most complex” suggests that familiar memory is the most developed or complicated example, not the only kind that exists.
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- Google Books — Les maladies de la mémoire (1881)
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