How To Use contiguity In A Sentence
- The issue raises questions of national self-determination, territorial contiguity, political ambition and petropounds. Times, Sunday Times
- There are also several well-established neutral districting principles, such as contiguity, compactness, community of interest among those in the district, and adherence to municipal and county lines.
- Sense knowledge can tell us only that effect follows upon cause, because the mind, bounded by the senses, cannot legitimately infer any idea of causality from impressions of mere contiguity.
- This differs from association by contiguity, which is a repetition of experience, and from association by resemblance in the intellectual sense. Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English
- Fortuitous coincidences bring these characters into narrative contiguity, though they come from vastly different backgrounds. The Times Literary Supplement
- As our imagination chops up and forms new ideas, it is directed by three principles of association, namely, resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect.
- The government of the North-west, as an 'annexe' to Canada, possesses advantages of contiguity and similarity of ideas on the part of Canadians and the probable settlers. Canada and the States
- We have seen that Hume takes there to be three relations on which our association of ideas depends, those of resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect, but there is a functional difference between the first two and the third.
- However, as Deacon notes, many things can be said to have physical or temporal contiguity so there must be something more to this interpretative process.
- Contiguous spaces would normally possess that characteristic, but unity was not simply a question of contiguity. Times, Sunday Times
