Published on Commens (http://www.commens.org)

Home > Quote from "Recreations in Reasoning"
Commens
Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
‘Association by Contiguity’ (pub. 26.07.15-11:38). 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-recreations-reasoning-1.
Term: 
Association by Contiguity
Quote: 

Associations of our thoughts based on the habits of acts of reaction are called associations by contiguity, an expression with which I will not quarrel, since nothing can be contiguous but acts of reaction. For to be contiguous means to be near in space at one time; and nothing can crowd a place for itself but an act of reaction.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1897 [c.]). Recreations in Reasoning. MS [R] 205.
References: 
CP 4.157
Date of Quote: 
1897 [c.]
URL: 

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-recreations-reasoning-1