I make a distinction between remembering, recollecting and recalling. Remembering is reproducing on demand the content of memory. Recollecting is assembling disconnected memories into something coherent. Recalling is evoking immemorable meaning and filling the hollowness of memory.

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Yin is remembered and recollected. Yang remembers, recollects memories and recalls.

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Reading is to remember.

Comprehension is to recollect.

Hermeneutics is to recall.

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Facts are remembered.

Arguments are comprehended.

Meaning is understood.