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…showed last 75 words of 826 total…but is able to distinguish between the different memories, knowing one is true and another false. And him understanding that he can discern the difference is now a new memory which he will retain. In these few chapters of The Confessions Augustine was able to thoroughly investigate memory and its many aspect, such as he does with time in the following book. He comes to many satisfactory conclusions that one cannot help to agree with.