association of ideas

<epistemology, Plato, memory, learning, imagine, empiricism>, <imagination, contiguity, psycology, Skinner, Gestalttheorie>, <associationism, semantics> presumed regularities in the co-existence or succession of particular mental contents. Noted as unreliable by Locke, the process of association became a central feature of human thought in the philosophy of Hume and Mill and in the psychology of Skinner.

[A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names]

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