colligation

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Or, in other words, they are only cognoscible as a colligation of incongruous coalescences."

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  1. A binding or twisting together. That tortuosity or complicated nodosity we usually call the navel; occasioned by the colligation of vessels before mentioned. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 5.
  2. In logic, the binding together of facts by means of a general description or hypothesis which applies to them all. All received theories in science, up to the present time, have been established by taking up some supposition, and comparing it, directly or by means of its remoter consequences, with the facts it was intended to embrace. Its agreement, under certain cautions and conditions, … is held to be the evidence of its truth. It answers its genuine purpose, the colligation of facts. Whewell, Nov. Org. Renovatum, iv. § 11. Colligation is not always induction; but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill, Logic, III. ii. § 4.
  3. In psychology, a form of mental connection or association in which the constituent elements, after combination, are as distinct as (or even more distinct than) they were or would be in isolation. Simultaneous color contrast may serve as a typical instance of colligation. O. Kulpe (trans.), Outlines of Psychol., p. 21.

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