The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives’

Term: 
Association by Contiguity
Quote: 

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; while experience is bound together, and only recognisable, by forces acting upon us, or, to use an even worse chosen technical term, by means of associations by contiguity.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1892). The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives
Date: 
1892
References: 
CP 3.419
Citation: 
‘Association by Contiguity’ (pub. 26.07.15-17:58). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-critic-arguments-ii-reader-introduced-relatives-4.
Posted: 
Jul 26, 2015, 17:58 by Mats Bergman