Law of Association
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)" …the being governed by a purpose or other final cause is the very essence of the psychical phenomenon, in general. There ought, therefore, one would think, to be under the order of psychonomy, or... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit" …the generalizing tendency is the great law of mind, the law of association, the law of habit taking. We also find in all active protoplasm a tendency to take habits... |
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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" All inferences are really performed under the influence of the law of association. But all psychical actions divide into two great classes, those which are performed under the uncontrolled... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences (Logic II)" Nomological Psychology will treat of laws of mind subordinate to the general principles of final causation. I recognize in it but two Families, of which the one is devoted to the study of the... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/07/2015 Quote from "The Connection between Mind and Matter" Now, in obedience to the principle, or maxim, of continuity, that we ought to assume things to be continuous as far as we can, it has been urged that we ought to suppose a continuity between the... |