contiguity

Proximity or contiguity is a rhetorical device among others; any writer of modest ability, let alone Proust, attends to various sorts of associations and crosspollinations (I have just attended to double-s sounds).

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

There is an advantage in contiguity-chronological and geographical.

The Significance of South America to Canada 1941

This differs from association by contiguity, which is a repetition of experience, and from association by resemblance in the intellectual sense.

Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

The numerous trains of associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766

The numerous trains of these associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Unfortunately, the above properties-based account of a field is incompatible with the alternative approach to space-time, which takes it to be merely a system of relations (such as contiguity) between physical bodies: if the field quantities are properties of space-time regions and the latter are understood, ultimately, to be reducible to relations between physical objects, where the latter are conceived of in field-theoretic terms, then a circularity appears to arise.

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory French, Steven 2006

Secondly it was held that the ideas arising from these two environmental sources become linked to - gether by principles of association such as contiguity and resemblance.

BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

After demonstrating clearly that on the negative side the derivation of "contiguity" was not "con" and

Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages Calvin Coolidge 1902

One definite kind of contiguity, consisting of mutual approximation of the mucous membranes of the lips in the form of a kiss, has received among the most civilized nations a sexual value, though the parts of the body concerned do not belong to the sexual apparatus but form the entrance to the digestive tract.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

Now, motion in a body is known to be capable of being imparted to another body contiguous to it; and the intervention of a hypothetical elastic fluid occupying the space between the sun and the earth, supplies the contiguity which is the only condition wanting, and which can be supplied by no supposition but that of an intervening medium.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839