Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates the psychological doctrine of associationism.
- noun One who supports the doctrine of association advocated by Fourier and known as Fourierism (which see).
- Pertaining to associationism, in either sense of that word.
- Also
associationalist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Philos.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
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- noun philosophy One who explains the higher functions and relations of the
soul by the association of ideas.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'associationist' psychology, brought down to its radical expression: it is useless to ignore its power as a conception.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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Furthermore, its conceptual vocabulary stems mainly from German idealist philosophy and this causes problems when translating into materialist and associationist traditions, even regarding some of the most elementary features, such as the I, or the subject.
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The associationist might counter that sensory experience is sufficiently uniform for association to produce the universalities and necessities at issue.
Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009
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But this does not detract from the considerable anti-associationist force provided by the sorts of universalities and necessities Kant has in mind, and this fact is recognized by the contemporary discussion.
Kant's Transcendental Arguments Pereboom, Derk 2009
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Observations on Man (1749) which clearly, on the one hand, proposed a parallelism between mental states and bodily states, and, on the other hand, articulated with equal clarity an associationist account of learning.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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Joseph Priestley had edited Hartley into a textbook of associationist psychology by eliminating much of the physiology (and by also eliminating much of the rather odd theology with which Hartley ended his work).
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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In A System of Logic (1843) Mill again provides a critique of psychological hedonism that relies on an associationist account of the development of plural ends that are psychologically autonomous
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007
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Mill applies empiricist principles to the ontology of material things and his associationist principles to their perception.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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In fact, Mill offers an associationist story about the evolution of such intrinsic or ultimate desires.
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007
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This education was undertaken according to the principle of Bentham's associationist psychology, and aimed to make of the younger Mill a leader in views of the philosophical radicals.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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