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Noun- The persistent or recurrent effect of past experience of the individual or of the race.

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  • That has to do with transforming a death-dealing idea into a life-giving idea, in creating a new mneme from the Greek word for memory that will reproduce among our...
  • Finally, after many minutes of struggle, I put on my thinking boots andinventeda newword: mnemencholy, derived from mneme (memory) and melancholy (sadness).
  • Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then,...
  • There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.
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