So I entered, and, passing along the inner side of the quadrangle, came to the door of the chapel, which forms a part of the contiguity of edifices next the street.
Half a century ago, the most frequent token of man's beneficent contiguity might have been a gibbet, and the creak, like a tavern sign, of a murderer swinging to and fro in irons.
Doubtless it took its name of Desert of the Boii on account of its contiguity to the south of the country occupied by those people, and which still bears the name of Bohemia.
Association bycontiguity may be separated into two sub-classes--contiguity in time; and contiguity in space.
Association by contiguity is the great law of thought, as well as of memory.
Contiguity in space is manifested in forms of recollection or remembrance by "position.
If you will recall some house or room in which you have been, you will find that you will remember one object after another, in the order of the relative positions, or contiguity in space, or position.
Association by contiguity is that form of association by which an idea is linked, connected, or associated with the sensation, thought, or idea immediately preceding it, and that which directly follows it.
The difficulty is largely due to the fact that the various facts are associated in our minds only by contiguity in time or place, or both, the associations of relation being lacking.
Kay says: "Over the associations formed by contiguity in time or space we have but little control.
In contiguity in time there is manifested the tendency of the memory to recall the impressions in the same order in which they were received--the first impression suggesting the second, and that the third, and so on.
The Effect of the Airs Contiguity in the Natation of Solids.
The atmosphere of the Hindoo-Koosh, and the contiguity of Dost Mahomed, were fatal to the fidelity of the corps.
Dealing with the law of Contiguity he says that the "most natural way of accounting for it is to conceive it as a result of the laws of habit in the nervous system; in other words to ascribe it to a physiological cause.
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.
It has been lately discovered in a fossil state, and in contiguity with fossil wood; but we were quite electrified at the price of certain little scent-bottles, and other articles made of this production.
To me it would seem infinitely more desirable to seek "a lodge in some vast wilderness--some boundless contiguity of shade.
The mere contiguity of a great variety of human creatures is itself a lesson in the real values of life.
Masterman's dislike for him remained, but use and contiguity had worn down much of his original prejudice.
Ten minutes of contiguity suffice, and so well is the girl's character indicated by a few masterly strokes, that the reader feels no surprise at the result.
As regards these colonies you must allow them to turn to the best possible account their contiguity to the States, that they may not have cause for dissatisfaction when they contrast their own condition with that of their neighbours.
In fact, the relation between enumerative induction and analogy is of the same sort as that existing between association by contiguity and association by similarity.
In association by contiguity we think of the things associated as merely standing in certain temporal or spatial relations, and disregard the fact that they were elements in a larger experience.
It is contended that this gives a wider extension to the law of contiguity in time and space than properly belongs to it.
It has been usual to enumerate as primary laws of suggestion, the following: resemblance, contrast, contiguity in time or place; to which has sometimes been added cause and effect.
What is that but the operation of the law of contiguity in time?
We cannot say now what we shall find ourselves thinking of five minutes hence; but, whatever it may be, we shall then be able to trace it through intermediary links of contiguity or similarity to what we are thinking now.
When you recite the alphabet or your prayers, or when the sight of an object reminds you of its name, or the name reminds you of the object, it is through the law of contiguity that the terms are suggested to the mind.
The Law of Similarity says that, when contiguity fails to describe what happens, the coming objects will prove to resemble the going objects, even though the two were never experienced together before.
Visual memory depends largely upon contiguity of space, as for instance our ability to recall the details of scenes, when starting from a given point.
In both of these forms of association by contiguity the mental operation is akin to that of unwinding a ball of yarn, the ideas, thus associated in the sequence of time or place, following each other into the field of consciousness.
Association by Contiguitymanifests particularly in the processes of memory.
Verbal memory depends largely upon the contiguityof time, as for instance, our ability to repeat a poem, or passage from a book, if we can recall the first words thereof.
Association by contiguity (or continuity), which Wundt calls external, is simple and homogeneous.
In recent years various attempts have been made to reduce these two laws to one, some reducing resemblance to contiguity; others, contiguity to resemblance.
The "law of interest" doubtless is less exact than the intellectual laws of contiguity and resemblance.
There are some associations based on contiguity and on resemblance which one may foresee, but how about the rest?
Contiguity itself, which is usually only repetition, becomes the source of unforeseen relations, thanks to the elimination of the middle term.
Without taking sides in the debate, I adopt the most generally accepted classification, the one most suitable for our subject--the one that reduces everything to the two fundamental laws of contiguity and resemblance.
Of his own contiguity she had evidently taken no thought, believing him safely housed in his cabin beside the semaphore.
This fact should be sufficient to make one realise the insufficiency of 'a simple [mistaken] recognition of the similarity and contiguity of ideas' as an explanation of the origin of Magic.
Obviously the concept of personal agent is more complex than a simple recognition of the similarity or contiguity of ideas.
For the present, therefore, I have decided that I can only wait, though his contiguity is strangely disturbing to me now, and I hardly retain strength of mind to encounter him.
His contiguity influenced her too sensibly; she could not reason.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contiguity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
