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Definition of Contiguities
1. contiguity [n] - See also: contiguity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contiguities
Literary usage of Contiguities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics by Alexander Bain (1868)
"In the Composition of contiguities, we may distinguish Conjunctions and Successions.
Conjunctions. Most things affect the mind by a plurality of impressions ..."
2. The Senses and the Intellect by Alexander Bain (1874)
"The combinations may be made up of contiguities alone, of Similarities alone, or
of Contiguity and Similarity mixed. Moreover, we shall find that in Emotion ..."
3. Games and Sports: Being an Appendix to Manly Exercises and Exercises for by Donald Walker, Henry Adlard (1837)
"Thus, supposing a knight placed on a given square, a certain number of squares
are contiguities of the first kind to it; two at the least, four at the most. ..."
4. The Human Mind: A Treatise in Mental Philosophy by Edward John Hamilton (1883)
"This denial, however, admits of the reply that, although a cause and its effect
must always be first seen under the contiguities of time and space, ..."
5. The Perceptionalist, Or, Mental Science: A University Text-book by Edward John Hamilton (1899)
"This denial, however, admits of the reply that although a cause and its effect
must always be first seen under the contiguities of time and space, ..."
6. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"If habitual contiguities predominate, we have a prosaic mind ; if rare contiguities,
or similarities, have free play, we call the person fanciful, poetic, ..."
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