Abstract: Archives academia generally takes the logical form of“category+differentia”to define archives, thus revealing the essence of archives and determining the category of archives have become the fundamental problems of archive definitions. Archive Memory Theory holds that archives are the material form of memory. With the inevitability of its own historical choice and the objective advantage of its logical structure, archives have become a typical form of the external brain memory consciously constructed by human beings. As historical documents used to construct original memory, archives are represented as archive entities in material form, and in logical relationship, as two dimensions: recording and reproducing. Taking archive entities as the origin, in the dimension of space and time, going backwards, it is the dimension of archival record relationship. At the other end of the relationship is the historical fact of archival memory, which is the object of archival memory. Looking forward, it is the dimension of the relationship of archival reproduction, and at the other end of the relationship of archival reproduction is the memory fact proved by the archival object, which is the evidence of archival memory. In this logical structure, the archive entity, namely the archive itself, is the material carrier of the“two- dimensional”logical relationship and the“tripple elements”of the archives. The essence of archival phenomenon is the practice process of condensing“triple elements”with“two-dimensional”logical relationship.
ZHAO Hexuan, HUA Rong. The Essence of Original Memory and Its Logical Structure from the Perspective of Archive Definitions. Archives Science Study, 2020, 34(2): 25-30.
