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The Place and the Significance of the Presence in John Duns Scotus's Concept of Memory

Scotus defines memory of the past as an imperfect intuition. While he deals with intuitive cognition and its difference from abstractive cognition throughout various texts he employs the term Presence. Paper provides basic information of human cognitive mechanism with the distinction between intuitive and abstractive cognition according to Scotus, emphasising the role of Presence in his concept of memory. At the end interpreter is searching the answer for the question: Could Scotus's memory and remembering concepts help us interpret and maybe even translate precisely certain statements about time from Augustin’s Confessions to other languages (e.g.English or Croatian)?

memory ; presence ; imperfect intuition ; John Duns Scotus ; Augustine

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