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mental mechanics

mental mechanics

the concept, named and described by James Mill but common to most earlier associationist positions, that all complex ideas are merely agglomerations of simpler ideas combined according to the laws of association. Also called mental physics. Compare mental chemistry. See also associationism; association of ideas.

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