contiguity
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contiguity englanniksi
A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
1958–1960, Stanley Peters|R.S. Peters, ''The Concept of Motivation'', Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:
- In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.