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We tend to take remembering as an unproblematic phenomenon – unless we try to remember something that is not instantly in our mind, at which point the process becomes problematic. When we forget something – to bring lunch to the office, the name of a street – we attribute it to a failure of the mind without reflecting too much about the phenomenon. Remembering may be taken in the way we think about taking something from a cupboard or bookshelf. Take the following exchange in which a colleague asks me about where I bought a particular bottle of wine.
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Roth, WM. (2012). Memory. In: Roth, WM. (eds) First-Person Methods. Practice of Research Method, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_6
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