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| − | * The philosopher Aristotle came up with the three basic Laws of Association: law of contiguity, law of similarity, and law of contrast. The Law of Contiguity states that we associate things that occur close to each other in time or space.<blockquote> | + | * The philosopher Aristotle came up with the three basic Laws of Association: law of contiguity, law of similarity, and law of contrast. The Law of Contiguity states that we associate things that occur close to each other in time or space.<blockquote>Whenever therefore, we are recollecting, we are experiencing certain of the antecedent movements until finally we experience the one after which customarily comes that which we seek. This explains why we hunt up the series (of kineseis) having started in thought either from a present intuition or some other, and from something either similar, or contrary, to what we seek, or else from that which is contiguous with it. Such is the empirical ground of the process of recollection; for the mnemonic movements involved in these starting-points are in some cases identical, in others, again, simultaneous, with those of the idea we seek, while in others they comprise a portion of them, so that the remnant which one experienced after that portion (and which still requires to be excited in memory) is comparatively small.<ref>Aristotle, ''On Memory and Reminiscence'' http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/memory.html</ref></blockquote> |
* The continuity principle or continuity equation is another principle of fluid mechanics that states that what flows into a defined volume in a defined time, minus what flows out of that volume in that time, must accumulate in that volume<ref>Continuity principle | physics | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/continuity-principle</ref> | * The continuity principle or continuity equation is another principle of fluid mechanics that states that what flows into a defined volume in a defined time, minus what flows out of that volume in that time, must accumulate in that volume<ref>Continuity principle | physics | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/continuity-principle</ref> | ||
| − | * In physics, contiguity refers to the principle of locality which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings<ref>Aristotle ''Physics'' Book VIII https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.8.viii.html</ref> | + | * In physics, contiguity refers to the principle of locality which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings</blockquote>Wherever we have something capable of acting and something capable of being correspondingly acted on, in the event of any such pair being in contact what is potential becomes at times actual:<ref>Aristotle ''Physics'' Book VIII https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.8.viii.html</ref></blockquote> |
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Revision as of 12:08, 13 June 2023
Definition
A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
Context
- The philosopher Aristotle came up with the three basic Laws of Association: law of contiguity, law of similarity, and law of contrast. The Law of Contiguity states that we associate things that occur close to each other in time or space.
Whenever therefore, we are recollecting, we are experiencing certain of the antecedent movements until finally we experience the one after which customarily comes that which we seek. This explains why we hunt up the series (of kineseis) having started in thought either from a present intuition or some other, and from something either similar, or contrary, to what we seek, or else from that which is contiguous with it. Such is the empirical ground of the process of recollection; for the mnemonic movements involved in these starting-points are in some cases identical, in others, again, simultaneous, with those of the idea we seek, while in others they comprise a portion of them, so that the remnant which one experienced after that portion (and which still requires to be excited in memory) is comparatively small.[1]
- The continuity principle or continuity equation is another principle of fluid mechanics that states that what flows into a defined volume in a defined time, minus what flows out of that volume in that time, must accumulate in that volume[2]
- In physics, contiguity refers to the principle of locality which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings</blockquote>Wherever we have something capable of acting and something capable of being correspondingly acted on, in the event of any such pair being in contact what is potential becomes at times actual:[3]</blockquote>
References
- ↑ Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/memory.html
- ↑ Continuity principle | physics | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/continuity-principle
- ↑ Aristotle Physics Book VIII https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.8.viii.html
