contiguity

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David Hume, in his 1748 book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, wrote, “There appear to be only three principles of connections among ideas, namely Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Selby-Bigge, L. A.

Contiguity and resemblance have an effect much inferior to causation; but still have some effect, and augment the conviction of any opinion, and the vivacity of any conception.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

Thus in particular, he would have explained association by Contiguity as due to the circumstance of imperfect assimilation of the present to the past in consciousness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William