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pothesis as applied to the association of ideas, and to thought in 

 general, must not be taken in bare simplicity. For the present, 

 it should be restricted to the learning process, for the explanation 

 of which I introduced it. Learning is obviously a process the 

 ideal of which is its own abolition, and it would be surprising if 

 we did not find the final mechanism of association characteris- 

 tically different from that essential to the initiation of the asso- 

 ciation process. 



