Quote from "Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas"

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‘Suggestion by Contiguity’ (pub. 26.07.15-19:02). 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-grand-logic-book-i-reasoning-general-introduction-association-ideas-5.

Term:

Suggestion by Contiguity

Quote:

…suggestion by contiguity may be defined as the suggestion by an idea of another, which has been associated with it, not by the nature of thought, but by experience, or the course of life.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1893 [c.]). Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas. MS [R] 400.

References:

CP 7.391

Date of Quote:

1893 [c.]

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-grand-logic-book-i-reasoning-general-introduction-association-ideas-5