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

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘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.

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, C. S. (1892). The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives. The Open Court, 6, 3415-3418.

References:

CP 3.419

Date of Quote:

1892

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-critic-arguments-ii-reader-introduced-relatives-4