Contiguity

After all, you don't have to star in "Mad Men" to know that most advertising is based on that very principle of Contiguity, which is a form of Metonymy (see, do, Roman Jakobson's monograph published by Mouton on "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles").

FrontPage Magazine Hugh 2010

Contiguity to home can never excite our ideas of home, unless we believe that it really exists.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

-- Its Contiguity to the Place of the Growth of various

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

-- Its Contiguity to the Place of the Growth of various

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

_Contiguity_ is the _state of being_ within _touching_ distance.

Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Elmer W. Cavins

Having previously reduced mind to no more than a succession of perceptions, he declares: "To me there appear to be only three principles of connection among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect" (Works, IV, 18).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Contiguity to home can never excite our ideas of home, unless we believe that it really exists.

Sceptical Solution of these Doubts. Part II 1909

To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.

Of the Association of Ideas 1909

Contiguity itself, which is usually only repetition, becomes the source of unforeseen relations, thanks to the elimination of the middle term.

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