摘要: Episodic memory—memory for personally experienced past events—seems to afford a distinctive kind of cognitive contact with the past. This makes it natural think that episodic memory is centrally involved in our understanding what something be past, or located time—that either necessary sufficient such understanding. If this were case, would suggest certain straightforward evidential connections between temporal cognition and nonhuman animals. In paper, I argue matters are more complicated than this. events not times they occupy. As such, dissociable from say unrelated, but relationship them cannot straightforwardly captured by claims about necessity sufficiency. should inform theoretical predictions manifestations behaviour.