ABSTRACT
The primary purpose of this chapter is to present a historical sketch of the continuity and change in associative reasoning from Aristotle to the modern day connectionist paradigm in cognitive psychology. There are numerous investigations that demonstrate the links between associationism and behaviorism, and as I tried to demonstrate over a decade ago, there are links as well between associationism and the cerebral connectionism of the diagram makers from Charles Bastian and Karl Wernicke to Norman Geschwind (Buckingham, 1984).
