Abstract
The main goal of this article is to argue in favor of the thesis that it is impossible or at least excessively difficult to evaluate beliefs based on memory, especially when they are justified in so-called episodic memories, this implies that beliefs based on episodic memory cannot be sufficiently justified to achieve the status of knowledge.
To achieve this goal, I briefly explain the differences and epistemological relationships among memory, recall, belief and knowledge. Later, I will present various ways in which memory has been understood, as well as some of the tests that have served to measure memory since depending on these it can be maintained that there are false memories. Although these tests are valuable for the purposes for which they were designed, there are cases that escape them and these have epistemologically important implications, among them that memory is not a reliable source to justify some of our beliefs and that they count as knowledge.
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