A world of temporal repetition is a world that can never escape the power of spatial contiguity. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
There is an advantage in contiguity-chronological and geographical. From Wordnik.com. [The Significance of South America to Canada] Reference
The numerous trains of associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
This differs from association by contiguity, which is a repetition of experience, and from association by resemblance in the intellectual sense. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
The numerous trains of these associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Secondly it was held that the ideas arising from these two environmental sources become linked to - gether by principles of association such as contiguity and resemblance. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
After demonstrating clearly that on the negative side the derivation of "contiguity" was not "con" and. From Wordnik.com. [Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages] Reference
Emancipation in consequence of his contiguity to Siva. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Nor did the contiguity seem displeasing to the lovely girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
I know the Palestinians are suffering from lack of contiguity. From Wordnik.com. ['I Can Make Peace'] Reference
Exception may be taken to the close contiguity of an American or. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
I have wondered more than once why Arafat lies to his people about contiguity. From Wordnik.com. ['Stream Of Lies'] Reference
Even then the sense of my dreadful contiguity apparently would come upon her like. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
A lack of territorial contiguity proved disastrous for pre-1971 Pakistan/Bangladesh. From Wordnik.com. [Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table] Reference
It befel at a quiet dinner where JOSEPH, finding himself in contiguity with Chairman of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892] Reference
Nowhere else do we see the two elements of frost and fire in such immediate contiguity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
The laborers probably chose this contiguity for the sake of company across the wide fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Lord Bromley did not observe their frequent contiguity with the same satisfaction as of yore. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Here they were observed to hastily relieve themselves from contiguity and enter in single file. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892] Reference
By many years of close contiguity, however, I have come to have some understanding of their ways. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Lack of territorial contiguity is indeed a potential impediment to Palestinian national viability. From Wordnik.com. [Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table] Reference
The contiguity of the two nations to our territory was but too well calculated to involve our peace. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Under conditions of peace and stability, Palestine's dis-contiguity looks problematic but manageable. From Wordnik.com. [Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table] Reference
It has been lately discovered in a fossil state, and in contiguity with fossil wood; but we were quite. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Found a place immediately behind in friendly contiguity to former colleagues, Lord CREWE and Lord MORLEY. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
But, between the red man and the white, contiguity has brought about little more than an exchange of vices. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Why should you not court a "boundless contiguity of shade," and issue your immortal works from the depths of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
He stands, often, in the contiguity to an ancient broadsword most fitted to demonstrate the fact that he could never use it. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
The commerce carried on in their beautiful silks, and in a great variety of other productions; their contiguity to the Mediterranean and. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
This purposive unity cannot well be secured without spatial contiguity; here, as in sculpture, a unified life demands a unified material. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
There was neither fauna nor flora, neither wilderness, tempest, nor any familiar look of Nature, but only one boundless contiguity of books. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
I have many alders in close contiguity with important drains; and, though I have never convicted one, I can not doubt that they are dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The resemblance, however, is striking, as connected with the facts of the contiguity of Minorca, and the colonisation of both the islands by the. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Since this does not allow for territorial contiguity of the future Palestinian State, it will be inacceptable for the Palestinians and the international community. From Wordnik.com. [Carlo Strenger: Why Israel is Moving to the Right] Reference
The contiguity to a chopping mill is a material consideration -- Wood forming an important article, should be taken into view -- Grain merits also a great share of attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States] Reference
Next there are the assemblages of cells lying in contiguity with one another, but not in any way fused; examples of this class are the epidermal tissues and the lens of the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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