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- noun Plural form of
associationist .
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Examples
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His associationist theories of mental function and his biological concepts were derived from English and German associationists and from the theories of suggestion of French and German hypnotists which were also associationist in structure.
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968
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America under the influence of British classical and evolutionary associationists.
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968
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The efforts of the associationists (the usurpers of to-day in the field of Aesthetic) to emerge from the difficulty, and to reaffirm in some way the unity which has been destroyed by their principle of associationism, are highly instructive.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Further, if with certain associationists we speak of an association which is neither memory nor flux of sensations, but is a _productive_ association (formative, constructive, distinguishing); then we admit the thing itself and deny only its name.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Such a conception accorded beautifully with the ideas of the associationists, who had now become dominant in psychology.
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She did not fall in love at first sight with the Northampton Association, for she arrived there at a time when appearances did not correspond with the ideas of associationists, as they had been spread out in their writings; for their phalanx was a factory, and they were wanting in means to carry out their ideas of beauty and elegance, as they would have done in different circumstances.
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Let us note that the importance of this fact has been pointed out not by the associationists (a fact especially worth remembering) but by less systematic writers, strangers to that school, -- Coleridge, Shadworth Hodgson, and before them,
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877
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But whether they be animists or associationists, a supposition something like this is still the assumption of our usual psychologists.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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The supraliminal region, as Myers calls it, the classic-academic consciousness, which was once alone considered either by associationists or animists, figures in his theory as only a small segment of the psychic spectrum.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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Apart from the great contrasts between minds that are teleological or biological and minds that are mechanical, between the animists and the associationists in psychology, there is the entirely different contrast between what I will call the classic-academic and the romantic type of imagination.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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