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| | Philosophers Zone - 24 June 2006 - The philosophy in Tristram Shandy |
 | | And interestingly, Hartley influenced Pavlov, who performed the famous experiments with dogs, you know, you ring a bell and give food to the dog, so eventually the dog learns to salivate just because the bell has rung, even though there is no food present. |
 | | But I think it's important that for Pavlov, and for Hartley, this form of association wasn't a pathology, it was the mechanism of the mind. |
 | | And at some point in the 18th century, towards the middle of the 18th century, the doctrine of association of ideas changed form, and instead of being something which was to be avoided, which was seen to be a failing of humankind, it became something which actually became an explanatory key to psychological processes. |
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