Association

(as-so-se-a's hun.) [From L. as socio, Ι unite with. ] The proce , and also the result of bringing together into alliance or companionship.-(Psych) A. of ideas is a phrase by which is understood that connection between certain ideas which causes them to succeed cach other involuntarily in the mind. To the wrong A. of ideas made in our minds by custom, Locke attributes most of the sympathies and antipathies observable in men, which work as strongly and produce as regular effects as if they were natural, though they at first had no other origin than the accidental connection of two ideas, which, either by the strength of the first impre ion, or by subsequent indulgence, are so united that they ever after keep company together in the mind, as if they were but one idea. [s. 54]