The Refutation of the Proponents of Perception 225 2.1.2.2.2.2.2 Repudiating similarity to our [position] (456:3) That this remembering is other Than what experienced the object is not for me Therefore, one remembers, thinking, “I saw.” This, moreover, is the way of the world’s conventions (75) They may say, “In that case, for you it follows that earlier experience will not be remembered later because of being other.” Later memory of previous experience is, upon analysis, not established by later memory coming into being and so forth due to the reason that, previously, a knower of itself existed; without analyzing, we of the Middle Way School merely conform to worldly custom That this later remembering cognition is established as a substantial entity that is other than the earlier cognition that experienced the object is not for me This is because, when [they] are not established as causal and resultant things—substantial entities that are by nature themselves, substantial entities that are by nature other, and so on—so long as earlier experience, later memory, and so forth are not analyzed, contingent cause and result are not unable to be posited 47 Therefore, a later cognition will remember, thinking, “Earlier I saw,” precisely because the earlier and later cognitions are not substantially other This is because it is not the case that memory does not experience what has been experienced and that memory does not discern what experience has discerned Why? Because this way of experiencing and remembering, moreover, is the conventional way of the world but is not be to analyzed closely This is because all the world’s conventions have a meaning that is false.48 226 The Moon of Wisdom $?3-0-/A, ,.J-KA