Association by Resemblance
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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... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Division III. Substantial Study of Logic Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning" …when the mind declares that what it sees now, or remembers to have seen yesterday, is like what it remembers to have seen last week, the likeness, which though accompanied like... |
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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 another like... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" Synthetical consciousness degenerate in the second degree, corresponding to intermediate thirds, is where we think different feelings to be alike or different, which, since feelings in themselves... |
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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" Association is of two kinds. For, on the one hand, it may be a natural disposition, which was from birth destined to develop itself whatever the child’s outward experiences... |
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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 "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" …what goes by the name of the association of images is in reality an association of judgments. The association of ideas is said to proceed according to three principles – those of resemblance, of... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Recreations in Reasoning" Habits are either habits about ideas of feelings or habits about acts of reaction. The ensemble of all habits about ideas of feeling constitutes one great habit which is a World; and the ensemble... |