I BEGIN by citing two propositions which at least seem to be logically inconsistent. (1) "If there were no mental images there would be no imaging" (A. Hannay, Mental Images: A Defence (London, 1971), p. 173). (2) "The ultimate absurdity of the mental image account is that if it were correct there would be no visualising" (Roger Squires "Visualising".
BOOK REVIEWS then memory is reliable. Locke is aware of this for he concludes by saying: "One cannot question the possibility of memory-knowledge without shaking the entire structure of human knowledge to its foundations. And that, of course, is precisely what the philosophical skeptic means to do" (p. 137). The book has an excellent bibliography. G. F. Stout is listed incorrectly in the bibliography and consistently throughout the text and index as G. H. Stout.
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