David Hartley
Noun
Meaning
English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
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It also led to the development of psychology and other new disciplines with David Hartley 's attempt to discover a biological mechanism for associationism in his Observations on Man ( 1749 ).
This view naturally led to what was then usually called necessitarianism David Hartley, for example, described himself as "quite in the necessitarian scheme.