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" Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the... "
Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke - Page 226
by John Locke - 1802
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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy, Volumes 1-2

Knud Haakonssen - Electronic reference sources - 2006 - 668 pages
...that 'tis very hard to separate them' (Essay, II.xxxiii-5). No sooner does one idea enter the mind 'but its Associate appears with it; and if they are...are thus united, the whole gang always inseparable shew themselves together'. The upshot, Locke explains, is the joining of ideas 'not ally'd by Nature'...
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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke

Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - Social Science - 2010 - 352 pages
...be so united in Mens Minds, that 'tis very hard to separate them, they always keep company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the Understanding...are thus united, the whole gang always inseparable shew themselves together. (Essay, 2.33.5) We witness here, writes Caruth, how "every rational connection...
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