Russell
The object itself is not directly known to us;
non-inferential, unmediated, direct acquaintance with sense-data (…) is what we know (by acquaintance), and, when we say that we ‘know’ a table, that is because we describe it by saying “that ‘such-and-such sense-data are caused by a physical object’.” (p. 21) or, (probably equivalently), “the object which causes such-and-such sense data.”
The very notion of the past is derived from the fact that we have memories at all. Thus, to know something in the far past (by inference) depends fundamentally on the capacity to remember things you are acquainted with.
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