Association by Contiguity
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Article in Journal | Posted 22/03/2016 Gaultier, Benoit (2015). Some perplexities about Peirce's "skeleton ideas" In seven paragraphs written in 1893, Peirce puts forward a puzzling and thought-provoking claim about the role of rather mysterious "skeleton-sets" in processes of association of ideas: all...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives" The meanings of words ordinarily depend upon our tendencies to weld together qualities and our aptitudes to see resemblances, or, to use the received phrase, upon associations by similarity... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Qualitative Logic" Psychologists recognize that the suggestion of one idea by another may take place according to either one of two different principles; for an idea may suggest... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" Synthetical consciousness degenerate in the first degree, corresponding to accidental Thirdness, is where there is an external compulsion upon us to think things together. Association by... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Fragment on Consciousness and Reasoning [R]" Consciousness is rather like a bottomless lake in which ideas are suspended, at different depths. Percepts alone are uncovered by the medium. The meaning of this metaphor is that those which [are... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit" …the association, instead of being a natural disposition of mind, may be an acquired habit of mind. That supposes that similar ideas have been conjoined in experience until... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas" As experience clusters certain ideas into sets, so does the mind too, by its occult nature, cluster certain ideas into sets. These sets have various forms of connection. The... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Recreations in Reasoning" Associations of our thoughts based on the habits of acts of reaction are called associations by contiguity, an expression with which I will not quarrel, since... |