So there are myriad philosophical and even epistemological issues that memory raises.  To keep this discussion manageable, we will have to narrow our focus a bit.  First, we will be concerned in what follows only with the epistemology of memory beliefs.  But as we've seen, there are a number of things that ‘memory belief’ might designate.  So to make the domain of our discussion precise, we'll have to give it a stipulative (and hence somewhat artificial) definition.  Let the following be our working definition of memory belief: