association by similarity
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Are not these food taboos rather, Dr. Marett asks, a "misapplication of the ideas of association by similarity and contiguity" amounting to the sympathetic taboos so carefully described by such writers on Magic as MM.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
Imitative magic follows the law of association by similarity, while contagious magic is based on the law of contiguity.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
It has been said to consist in quick association by similarity.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
On the basis of his definition of magic as "a misapplication of the ideas of association by similarity and contiguity," Dr. Frazer divided magic into "positive magic," or charms, and "negative magic," or taboo.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
The final step in this reduction was to show that association by similarity was a special case of association by contiguity.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
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