Recognition takes place within the present without any intervention of pure memory.

For the present fact is a duration with its antecedent and consequent durations which are parts of itself.

The discrimination in sense-awareness of a finite event with its quality of passage is also accompanied by the discrimination of other factors of nature which do not share in the passage of events.

Whatever passes is an event.

But we find entities in nature which do not pass; namely we recognise samenesses in nature.