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In 1844 Lady Lyttelton, who was governess to the present King and his sister the Princess Royal, wrote from Court, "We are such a 'boundless contiguity of shade' just now.
Stone and stucco we had left behind us on the northern side of the river, and now it was a boundless contiguity of brick-yellow brick, rather grimy,-small houses with porticos, slips of dusty garden between the front door and the road, and here and there a row of wayside trees.
The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.
But contiguity is not causality.
This contiguity is exploited by the divide and conquer implementation.
w ij is a weight so that the statistic only considers neighbors that share a common border (w ij is 1/n if the two ZIP codes are neighbors using the rook contiguity relationship, where n is the number of rook neighbors, and w ij is zero otherwise).
There are, therefore, four Prime Laws of Association-the Law of Habit, the Law of Recency, the Law of Contiguity and the Law of Vividness.
We dare not go so far as to say that this creation of relations is arbitrary and corresponds in no way to reality, or that, when we judge two neighbouring or similar objects, the relations of contiguity and resemblance are pure inventions of our consciousness, and that these objects are really neither contiguous nor similar.
Resemblance is a physical property of objects, like colour, and contiguity is a physical property of objects, like form.
Now, similarity and contiguity form by combination the essential part of all kinds of reasoning, and this reasoning, thus understood, works in a fashion which much resembles (we shall see exactly in what degree) a physical law.
The reason of this is that the faculty of similarity and the faculty of contiguity do not give the distinction, necessary as it is, between resemblances and co-existences which are significant and those which are not.
I indicate by this the laws of contiguity and of similarity, as they result from the properties of the images, and as these are of a material nature, they are really physical and material laws like those of external nature.
The Law of Contiguity tells us that objects thought of in the coming wave are such as in some previous experience were next to the objects represented in the wave that is passing away.
When you recite the alphabet or your prayers, or when the sight of an object reminds you of its name, or the name reminds you of the object, it is through the law of contiguity that the terms are suggested to the mind.
The Law of Similarity says that, when contiguity fails to describe what happens, the coming objects will prove to resemble the going objects, even though the two were never experienced together before.
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