contiguity

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David Hume, in his 1748 book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, wrote, “There appear to be only three principles of connections among ideas, namely Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Contiguity and resemblance have an effect much inferior to causation; but still have some effect, and augment the conviction of any opinion, and the vivacity of any conception.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

Contiguity does not always exist, to our senses at least, in the cases in which motion produces motion.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

But the fact is fully accounted for on the general law of Association by Contiguity; there being many other examples of the same kind, as the love of money.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Selby-Bigge, L. A.