英语词汇“anthropomorphism”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those unfamiliar with horses might scoff at the notion of equine pride as a silly anthropomorphism, but the behavior is unmistakable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that I realized just how deep into the madness of pet anthropomorphism I had sunk. Anthropomorphism and the World of Canine Luxuries 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

This approach – only the social scientists persistently call it anthropomorphism; dog lovers tend to regard it as entirely acceptable behaviour – is widely frowned upon by most animal behaviourists as inhumane. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s not mere anthropomorphism to say that the wolves were smart and kind. Review | This husband-and-wife team ran with wolves for years. Here’s what they learned. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

With reference to chimpanzees, for example, James Marsh's Project Nim showed what happened when a Columbia University professor took anthropomorphism to its logical extreme by raising a chimp as if it were a human. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z

What it's looking at and what we're seeing, naming and embellishing with our own uniquely human anthropomorphisms, are a universe apart, no matter how many scientific tags and labels we might impose. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z

Writing about this is difficult and skiddy work, prone to anthropomorphism. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z

He indulges in anthropomorphism: Bookcases “stare,” books display an attitude of “mute resentment,” trees “press forward with desperate eagerness.” John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, is an expert on anthropomorphism, or attributing humanlike characteristics to non-humans. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk

Amy Leach's superficially very different book Things That Are, a collection of short whimsical pieces about animals, could be read as attempting a rewilding of the reader's imagination, through the ancient device of anthropomorphism. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z

The movie only fleetingly succumbs to anthropomorphism in line drawings that show a half-human Tulip in a dress, holding court. | 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog 2010-08-31T22:37:00Z

Today, a lot of scientists are saying it's actually a mistake to be against anthropomorphism. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z

Another new film in this vein throws the anthropomorphism debate into fresh relief. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z

But then "Dog Days" is about as far from conventional as contemporary opera gets — a post-apocalyptic scenario melded into the form of musical theater, with a good dose of reverse canine anthropomorphism. L.A. Opera broadens scope with post-apocalyptic 'Dog Days' at REDCAT 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Some of the cartoonish anthropomorphism of the creatures is a little offputting at first, but there's a childlike charm on show as well. Catch-up TV guide: from My Little Princess to Daria 2013-03-16T06:00:04Z

Any anthropomorphism must be forgiven; it is impossible not to be struck by the humanoid nature of these neighbors on the evolutionary chain. Trekking With the Gorillas of Rwanda 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The anthropomorphism of dogs is not a new phenomenon. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

Liz is hardly the only example of residential anthropomorphism to hit the market in recent years. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

And an extra ring of a cowbell to Darick Pead, who executes a splendid act of anthropomorphism in herding a character by the name of Milky White into the spotlight. Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale musical for grown-ups . . . 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

That Vizl’s images prompt such questions without excessive anthropomorphism is part of his book’s generosity. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need and instinct. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z

True, rank anthropomorphism presents certain dangers; if we abandon plant-centrism in favor of projecting human qualities onto fungi, Sheldrake concedes, we risk failing to understand an organism on its own terms. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

This is different to mere anthropomorphism – ascribing human characteristics to animals. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The lizards, rodents and other creepy-crawlies that populate its desert landscape are far more grotesque to behold than traditional Disney fauna, but their ugliness only adds an extra frisson to the film’s charming anthropomorphism. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z

I'm not a fan of using the anthropomorphism card. Do animals feel shame or are they faking it? An expert unmasks what dogs and cats may really feel 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z

As for making yourself unpopular, you might as well show up to a university lecture wearing Christopher Robin shorts and white bobby socks as be accused of anthropomorphism. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The fine catalog to “Through Vincent’s Eyes” points to the anthropomorphism of those undulating trees, which seem to dance furiously in the vivid light of a bright blue sky, just outside the hospital’s confines. Review: What made Van Gogh tick? A Santa Barbara show offers surprising answers 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Tech companies are also putting efforts into anthropomorphism — making robots look and move like humans — which, when combined with advanced AI, is making "robot friends" a real possibility. Robots are coming for the elderly — and that's a good thing 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

They smack of narcissism, anthropomorphism and wishful thinking. Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

And so the days of anthropomorphism need to, or the word "anthropomorphism" needs to disappear from our vocabulary. Ingrid Newkirk's new book "Animalkind" argues that animals' individuality is underestimated 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

My notion of anthropomorphism kept changing as I spent time with him. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

This is not entirely a bad thing, and the movie, which begins streaming Friday on Disney+, emerges a generally charming, sometimes cloying exercise in wildlife anthropomorphism. Review: Disneynature doc 'Elephant' is gorgeous if much too obvious (tusk, tusk) 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Trees are prone to anthropomorphism; we project our dreams and our anxieties onto them. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Planet Earth team notoriously don't approve of anthropomorphism - that is, attributing human characteristics to animals - and Meech says "persuading the BBC" to approve the storyline "was a challenge". Unseen Planet Earth footage debuts in music video 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

And while scientists often caution against anthropomorphism, it provides another point of comparison between us and these intelligent and emotionally complex marine mammals. Grandmother orcas help their grand-whales survive 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

He depicts it without a shred of anthropomorphism. Paws for thought: pet portraits are on the rise. But can they ever truly be art? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

They are betting, in effect, on the anthropomorphism of retail. The Impossible Alchemy of Barneys at Saks 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

“More generally, our goal is to further explore various types of anthropomorphism towards human-like devices,” the paper concluded. These creepy artificial skin phone cases makes phones pinchable, ticklish 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Dr Dale argues that anthropomorphism doesn't ultimately help the elephants, though. Do elephants risk their lives to save each other? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

But at every turn the exacting digital realism clashes with and cancels out the anthropomorphism, the glorious and unapologetic cartoonishness, that is crucial to this story’s success. 'The Lion King' is a huge hit. It might also be Disney's most dispiriting remake yet 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Working in the grandiose, psychedelic style that he has for years, Blomerth’s “Bicycle Day” imports Hofmann’s riveting yarn from the annals of medical history to comics with busy panels and rampant anthropomorphism. In 1943, a scientist took a bike ride on LSD. Brian Blomerth illustrates his historic trip 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Misleading anthropomorphisms are another, all too familiar, bugbear. The return of cancer’s magic bullet 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

I started to refer to the caterpillar as Lincoln, too—an anthropomorphism that I hoped Professor Brower, with whom I’d traveled to Mexico a number of times to see the butterflies, would have forgiven. The Vanishing Flights of the Monarch Butterfly 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

But that kind of anthropomorphism is common in Japan, said Markus, the Stanford cultural scientist. America's love-hate relationship with Marie Kondo and our clutter 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Their magnificence, their appearance of cuddliness, their ferocity, their vulnerability, their anthropomorphism – all combine to make the death of a single male, at the hands of guides for a tourist cruise ship, worldwide news. Will giant cruise ships destroy the wonders their passengers claim to love? | Rowan Moore 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

They call this anthropomorphism, and they discourage it. Opinion | The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Like his first one, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” this is both a celebration and sendup of cartoon anthropomorphism. Review | Wes Anderson brings his jewel-box aesthetic to Japan with ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

It is the ultimate act of anthropomorphism: to reconfigure creation in our own image. We’ve despoiled the Earth … now artificial stars are ruining space | Philip Hoare 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

A real difference is that, in my training in the last 10-20 years, the idea was to avoid anything that even looked like anthropomorphism. How Diverse Personalities Help Animals Survive 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Anthropomorphizing animals is a common strategy in science journalism and imbuing animals with human qualities can have positive outcomes; this is known as empathetic anthropomorphism. The Rise of the Bro Tortoise 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

With all this textbook anthropomorphism, it is hard to see the real rabbit without imagining his life in a comfy rabbit hole, nattily dressed in a sensible wool coat and shoes. Here Comes Eastern Cottontail 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Beth Singler, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, says it’s hard to avoid the anthropomorphism that leads to mulling the issue of robot rights. Pretending to give a robot citizenship helps no one 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Each time round they asked the volunteers to rate the robot on a number of criteria including likability, anthropomorphism, and perceived intelligence. Why do we like robots more when they mess up? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Ms Yallop’s main theme, however, is “the puzzle of anthropomorphism” and “how much animal instinct can look like human thought or emotion”. The consolation of animals 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

According to Rowley and Johnson, this type of anthropomorphism says little about the animal about which we are speaking and more about how humans perceive humanity via animals. The Rise of the Bro Tortoise 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

But they themselves regularly redraw the line between good science and anthropomorphism as a way of policing scientific discourse and favoring particular ideas. Duck Sex and the Patriarchy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

When he encounters a giant red turtle, however, he embarks on an altogether surprising relationship that tests the boundaries of interspecies understanding, and the notion of anthropomorphism itself. ‘The Red Turtle,’ from Studio Ghibli, is a lyrical escape into silence and solitude 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Of course, sharing emotion and anthropomorphism are not specific to the Chinese internet - this happens all over the world. How a dog made Chinese netizens share the pain of rejection - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Yet he also says that these feathered friends resist anthropomorphism, since they are skittish and nomadic. The consolation of animals 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The anthropomorphism in this otherwise compelling book is more spice than it needs. Dendrology: The community of trees : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

However, there are a growing number of writers who suggest that anthropomorphism is not all bad. How Guy the gorilla became the star of London Zoo - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Or else they went in for anthropomorphism, and reveled in the implicit absurdity. William Wegman: the 'dog artist' who still leads the pack 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Some warn that anthropomorphism, now regularly demonstrated through the online sharing of videos of pandas having tantrums or orangutans having a laugh, can be harmful. Anthropomorphism: how much humans and animals share is still contested 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ironically, this capacity for anthropomorphism may be one of the things that, ultimately, make us human. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo | Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“It seems crazy, doesn’t it?” said Ann McGill, also a professor of behavioral science at Booth who studies product and brand anthropomorphism — our practice of projecting human qualities onto the things we buy. Sorry, but Your Favorite Company Can’t Be Your Friend 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

On paper, it sounds like Pixar in self-parody mode, applying the anthropomorphism of "Toy Story" and "Cars" to a movie about the wacky adventures of human emotions. New releases: 'Inside Out' -- a beautiful illustration of what growing up feels like 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

The pro-bullfighting lobby often accuse their critics of anthropomorphism – the attribution of human qualities to animals – although they are hardly immune from this tendency. It was Spain’s ‘national fiesta’. Now bullfighting divides its people 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Eppink says one of his favorite moments was watching a dad discuss the effects of anthropomorphism with his young daughters. 8 Things I Learned at a Museum Exhibit About Internet Cats 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo | Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

When I was a college student majoring in biology more than 30 years ago, ascribing human emotions and motives to animals—anthropomorphism—was frowned on. Introduction to a Special Edition on Cats and Dogs 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s not ambition or technical know-how or even plucky resourcefulness that save the day in “Jurassic World,” it’s good old-fashioned anthropomorphism. Review: ‘Jurassic World’ ups the ante, with mixed success 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, it was not an example of anthropomorphism, where human characteristics are attributed to animals, says Mr Cassels, a Canadian studying at Cambridge on a scholarship funded by the Gates Foundation. Children 'more likely to confide in pets than siblings' - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

We were … interested in evaluating framing as an alternative mechanism to influence anthropomorphism. Want People To Like Your Robot? Name It Frank, Give It A Story 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Nature writers, however, avoid anthropomorphism like the proverbial plague. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo | Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The concept of corporate anthropomorphism was crisply summed up by Mitt Romney during his most recent run for president, when he told a heckler in 2011 that “corporations are people, my friend.” The Cost of Campaigns 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Let’s hope they realize the risks of their anthropomorphism before they step across the threshold. Corporations, 'artificial people' and the unintended risks of Hobby Lobby 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Yet avoiding anthropomorphism at all costs may be the main cause of the schism between scientists and the public in the debate about animal sentience. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In everyday life, the process of deciding whether or not to ascribe human qualities like thinking, feeling, and intentional action to people, animals, or objects can be called anthropomorphism, or mind perception. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z

The senator’s quip might be regarded as a particularly startling admission of ignorance – not to mention anthropomorphism – if it weren’t one of the oldest ploys in the creationist playbook. Monday morning levity: Louisiana senator asks if E. coli evolve into persons 2013-01-21T17:15:00.193Z

I think what he was getting at is this: AI is bedevilled by anthropomorphism. Will Eaves: What I'm thinking about ... artificial intelligence 2012-08-20T08:00:52Z

Dr Clive Wynne, professor of psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, US describes anthropomorphism as "a mistake" when "trying to understand animal behaviour." Chimpanzees behave 'like people' 2012-05-23T09:15:28Z

At its worst, anthropomorphism, the fallacy of attributing human characteristics to nonhumans, leads us to imbue animals with our perceptions and motives, reducing the worldview of another species to a bush-league version of our own. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Finally, just as feeling powerless or like one is living in an unpredictable world can increase anthropomorphism, feeling powerful or like one is living in a stable, predictable world can increase dehumanization as well. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z

Is there one who admits that we can, without anthropomorphism, understand literally all the attributes that we impute to the Deity? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z

A few commenters objected to the anthropomorphism involved in bestowing names on wild animals, but we need to call them something as we report on their young lives. City Room: Hawk Cam 2012: Final Chance to Name the Baby Hawks 2012-04-17T16:10:06Z

Through all anthropomorphisms of thought and language this line of light still passed inviolate and inviolable. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z

Virga told me that encountering misgivings about anthropomorphism once made him timid about expressing his convictions. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Social cognition unbound: Insights into anthropomorphism and dehumanization. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z

For thousands of years men could only conceive of evil as an animal with horns and a tail, going about the world devouring folk; abstract conceptions had to be made understandable by a crude anthropomorphism. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z

Who does not see that to represent things otherwise is to remain in the crudest and least religious of anthropomorphisms? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z

This "rubbing off" business he also applies to the God of the Bible, whose characteristic anthropomorphism "Rationalist," of course, rubs all off, even his intelligence. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z

We must not indeed suppose it to be a general law of religious evolution that “theriomorphism” must always precede anthropomorphism and that the latter transcends and obliterates the former. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z

The anthropomorphism of the Jewish Scriptures has already been referred to in Vol. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z

All these ideas, which are concomitants of the concept of progress, are childish anthropomorphism when applied to the universe. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z

Their efforts to purge the Koran of anthropomorphism made no impression on the faithful, who ardently hoped to see God in Paradise face to face. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z

It is only the anthropomorphism we attack—only the superstitions, assumptions and dogmas. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z

Throughout the poem, as in many of Chaucer’s writings, there is a curious mingling of pagan and Christian elements, a strange juxtaposition of astrological notions, Greek anthropomorphism and mediaeval Christian philosophy. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z

This sets it apart from many narrative science books for children which often rely on anthropomorphisms. Having a great science conversation with a kid 2011-10-12T14:45:09.293Z

With the anthropomorphism peculiar to the earliest stages of thought, man personified the mysterious powers which ruled his fate. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z

It were a sin, it were anthropomorphism, to assume such an identity of God and his prophet; but the resemblance is most striking. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z

The older traits show themselves partly in the manifestation of various Els, and partly in the cruder anthropomorphism of the earlier sources. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z

It is a very simple means of freeing theodicea from every shade of anthropomorphism; it is reducing God to an abstraction, to the abstraction of being in itself. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

The prospect is arguably rife with anthropomorphism, the supposed bane of all nonhuman animal consciousness studies. Animal emotion: When objectivity fails 2011-04-28T13:15:01.950Z

It thus differed from Hebrew anthropomorphism, with which in other respects it had so much in common. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

He was untainted, so far as a human being ever can be, by "anthropomorphism"; he endeavoured to transcend the merely human outlook. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z

Of course it would be mere unreflecting anthropomorphism to attribute to unconscious agencies a conscious subjection to the attracting and directing influence of such causes. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

Far removed from such crass anthropomorphism, but not morally much improved, are the kindred Wa-Swahili, who by long contact and interminglings have become largely Arabised in dress, religion, and general culture. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z

At some point, it might be that we should, in the words of cognitive ethologist Marc Bekoff, "get over the issue of anthropomorphism and move on—there’s important work to be done." Animal emotion: When objectivity fails 2011-04-28T13:15:01.950Z

Behind the lineaments of Hebrew anthropomorphism ghost or goblin are not to be found. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

I do not buy the anthropomorphism that marks out certain horses as keen competitors, having never seen any concrete evidence that the animals know they are in a race. My bad luck at cards paid dividends at the Cheltenham Festival 2011-03-21T00:05:04Z

This conception of efficient causality even in the inanimate things of external nature, after the analogy of our own vital powers as revealed in our conscious activities, is sometimes disparaged as naïve anthropomorphism. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

Before long, humans were committing wholesale acts of anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics and motives to anything with a face, a voice, a trajectory — bears, bats, thunderstorms, the moon. The Creature Connection 2011-03-14T17:14:39Z

“God” is simply, by anthropomorphism, “the Master on High.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z

The anthropomorphism of Semitic Babylonia is reflected in the anthropomorphism of the Israelites. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

This is the fundamental idea that urged the polytheistic peoples along the path of religious anthropomorphism. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z

If we compare them we shall find that, notwithstanding many differences, the notion of action in general involves a “simple” or “unmixed” perfection which can, without anthropomorphism, be applied analogically to the Divine Action. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

The anthropomorphism of the story is as vivid as in those Homeric scenes in which gods and men contend with one another in battle. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z

Mr. Wilson — a k a Raff — is careful, of course, to avoid anthropomorphism as he writes about the ant colonies at Lake Nokobee. Books of The Times: ?Anthill? by E. O. Wilson: Coming-of-Age Tale 2010-04-08T20:48:00Z

Some critics complain that the term “animal personality” is a bit too slick, while others worry that the entire enterprise smacks of that dread golem of biology, anthropomorphism — assigning human traits to nonhuman beings. Basics: Even Among Animals: Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z

He drew his central principle from Eastern pantheism, which might seem irreconcilable with the anthropomorphism of the West. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

In a general sense anthropomorphism is the assumption of man that his own characteristics are present in beings or things widely different from himself, more particularly in forces of nature and gods. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli

But when theists charge one another with “anthropomorphism,” in order to rebuke what they deem unduly manlike conceptions of God, they stand on slippery ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo"

But there is no stinting a veiled, almost structural anthropomorphism here. Books of The Times: ?Anthill? by E. O. Wilson: Coming-of-Age Tale 2010-04-08T20:48:00Z

Certainly, this is something more than what the naturalists have called "anthropomorphism." Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies

But the thin abstractions of the old Latin faith and the brilliant anthropomorphism of Greece had ceased to satisfy even the crowd. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Stars are just on the same footing, and their movements are explained by the same ready system of universal anthropomorphism. Custom and Myth New Edition

The following anecdote is characteristic of the strong tendency of human nature towards anthropomorphism. A Treatise on Relics

Between pantheism and Unitarianism he seems to have balanced till his thirty-fifth year, always tending towards the former in virtue of the recoil from “anthropomorphism” which originally took him to Unitarianism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher"

Pushed on by the influence of the lower population, it fell into the depths of anthropomorphism, asserting for the Virgin and the saints such attributes as omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition

With regard to the anthropomorphism of the Hebrew story, that is shared, and must be shared, by all religions—that is, all religious which rest upon the notion of a personal God. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877

There is no limit to the anthropomorphism of the language which Mr. Wells currently employs. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'

They are also the direct antitheses to the scepticism of Montaigne and Pascal, to the materialism of Gassendi and Hobbes, and to the superstitious anthropomorphism which defaced the reawakening sciences of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

His anthropomorphism is not a projection of himself into nature, but an absorption of nature in himself. Whitman A Study

It is anthropomorphism in another form, less fraught with evil to us, but equally in the way of a clear understanding of the life about us. Ways of Nature

Any devout Theist, who candidly thought over this petty fiction, would find its gross anthropomorphism inexpressibly shocking. Bible Romances First Series

He question of why oxygen and hydrogen form water is a prompting of anthropomorphism. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

Yes, all theology is anthropomorphism—the making of gods in man's image. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

What could it end in but anthropomorphism, or pantheism, or, rejecting both, a Religion of Humanity, with a background of an imbecile Unknowable? The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion

The attempts to discover it, made by Theology and Metaphysics, have been nothing more than elaborate anthropomorphisms, in which men gave to the unknown and unknowable reality, a form which was borrowed from their own. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879

But he will not slide into anthropomorphism, nor give to this Supreme Thing, which recalls Shelley's Demogorgon, the shape of a man. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

We thus see that the rise from zoomorphism to anthropomorphism which the Greeks afterwards carried to the highest point attainable by the resources of art, began in Babylonia. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

Evidently, though much refined, the anthropomorphism of the current hypothesis is inherited from the aboriginal anthropomorphism, which described gods as a stronger order of men. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

The naive anthropomorphism of the savage makes his a god of a mighty arm, a giant in stature, puissant and terrible. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion

But the superstition and anthropomorphism mingled with their faith did not make him think it less enviable. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885

But in the first place, the use of the epithets implies an anthropomorphism to which we have no right so long as we are dealing with the inferior species. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies

Having disposed of crude anthropomorphism we must now take up the problem of attributes, which endangers the unity. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Did God first reveal himself in human form, and if so, how could their conception of God advance beyond a rude anthropomorphism? Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

With the progress of man's intelligence we shall observe improvement in this anthropomorphism, but it will still survive. Moon Lore

Nevertheless there is very real danger in anthropomorphism,—in thus leaving the world of reality. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds

But there are never wanting minds to whom such views seem personal and contracted, and allied to an anthropomorphism long exploded in other fields of knowledge. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

The crude anthropomorphism of many expressions in the Bible as well as the Koran offended the more sophisticated thinkers ever since Alexandrian days. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

The school of Elea rejected the gross anthropomorphism of the Homeric theology. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

Here again we see the working of sexual anthropomorphism. Moon Lore

This metaphysical theory, one of the many varieties of mens agitat molem, being, like every other, a personal conception, it is superfluous to discuss or criticise its evident anthropomorphism. Essay on the Creative Imagination

At least from April to September he sang every day, and if my interpretation be anthropomorphic, why, so much the better for anthropomorphism. Edge of the Jungle

Despite its predominant anthropomorphism, however, the Bible does give us hints of God's spirituality so that the thoughtful reader may also have food for his thought. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Taken as a serious statement of fact, the anthropomorphism of the vulgar belief was open to the objections which Socrates brought against the Pagan mythology. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

This discovery it is which in the long run proves fatal to anthropomorphism. The Idea of God in Early Religions

Without speaking at this time of the hypotheses admitted as such and on account of their usefulness, there yet remain in the sciences many latent signs of primitive anthropomorphism. Essay on the Creative Imagination

In anthropomorphism there are many errors, but there is one truth. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

We have already spoken of Maimonides's general attitude toward the anthropomorphisms in the Bible and the manner in which he accounts for the style and mode of expression of the Biblical writers. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

But the anthropomorphism, which it seemed his object to set aside, is as firmly associated with the creation of a few forms as with the creation of a multitude. Fragments of science, V. 1-2

Without any scientific information available, for example, anthropomorphism, or the tendency to interpret cosmic phenomena in human terms is quite natural and reasonable. Human Traits and their Social Significance

Christianity offered almost no field for the exercise of Greek anthropomorphism. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Its anthropomorphism is only, to unobservant minds, less apparent. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

It is not here a question of anthropomorphism. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Moreover the religions of those people were much farther advanced, much richer in ideas and sentiments, more striking and stirring than the Greco-Latin anthropomorphism. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

Even the works of Darwin which, according to the opinion of these opponents of anthropomorphism, destroy anthropomorphism and teleology, are the most striking proof in favor of it. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

This is the main source of the inevitable anthropomorphism of religion. The Moral Economy

This persistent anthropomorphism is revealed in our religious ceremonies. Christianity and Progress

The best justification which can be offered for the expression sons of the universe as applied to these invisible companions is to be found in the inevitable anthropomorphism of all human thought. The Complex Vision

Nothing but that low anthropomorphism which, unfortunately, he so often seems to treat as the necessary result of Theism. On the Genesis of Species

It may be used as a reproach in warning against careless reasoning and hasty comparison, but the idea of anthropomorphism is so extensible that it can be extended over all human reasoning and conception. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

Xenophanes attacks the religion of his times on the ground of its crude anthropomorphism. The Moral Economy

Philosophical thought was antagonistic to anthropomorphism, which, as we have seen, was the most characteristic feature of popular religion in Greece, and which was essential to Greek religious art. Religion and Art in Ancient Greece

If this is "anthropomorphism," though strictly speaking it ought to be called "pan-psychism," then it is impossible for us to be too anthropomorphic. The Complex Vision

He rejected the crude religious ideas of his nation, was opposed to anthropomorphism, but considered it his duty to conform publicly to this belief. The Necessity of Atheism

We must be very careful in using anthropomorphism as a term of reproach. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

This is the belief of the adherents of anthropomorphism. Some Answered Questions

In religious art, what corresponds to this is the struggle towards anthropomorphism—first to represent the gods in human form, and then to make that form the most perfect that human art can devise. Religion and Art in Ancient Greece

Hindu mythology is famous for what I should like to hear called arrested personification, or arrested anthropomorphism. Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea

How, therefore, shall we satisfy ourselves concerning the cause of that Being whom you suppose the Author of Nature, or, according to your system of anthropomorphism, the ideal world in which you trace the material? Hume (English Men of Letters Series)

Is there even a single scientific description conceivable without its being full of anthropomorphisms? The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

That doctrine is intelligible and may be beautiful so long as we retain a sufficient degree of anthropomorphism. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists

This is the evil of a certain type of anthropomorphism. Our Unitarian Gospel

There is, however, another aspect of the charge of anthropomorphism�one which is more difficult to deal with because it affects at times the nature-mystic himself. Nature Mysticism

But what is science but a kind of anthropomorphism? The Breath of Life

No educated Christian, I imagine, believes in an anthropomorphic Deity in the sense in which this anthropomorphism is condemned in the noble passage of Xenophanes which he quotes in the first part of his work. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"

In the case of the abstract conceptions necessary in speech, such anthropomorphism does not generally occur; yet we see that sensation and a physiological genesis are inseparable from an abstract conception. Myth and Science An Essay

Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of, that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry. Health and Education

There is no need, then, to be afraid of a charge of anthropomorphism, if only our conceptions of nature do not lag behind our clear knowledge of its forms and forces. Nature Mysticism

I know that in this very statement I am idealizing the creative energy, but my reader will, I trust, excuse this inevitable anthropomorphism. The Breath of Life

It is always the same song, it is anthropomorphism pure and simple. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil

These abstract conceptions did not and do not result in the anthropomorphism of phenomena or ideas, but are transformed into entities which have a real existence. Myth and Science An Essay

However, let none construe these utterances to be anthropomorphism, nor see in them the descent of the worlds of God into the grades of the creatures; nor should they lead thine Eminence to such assumptions. The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys

Man may be clearly conscious of the symbolism of the idea, and yet, at the same time, grasp in it an incontestable intrinsic truth which he knows to be far above all mere anthropomorphism. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy

Witchcraft and sorcery are the practical expressions of these beliefs; and they stand in the same relation to religious worship as the simple anthropomorphism of children, or savages, does to theology. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

But, if to make God talk at all be anthropomorphism, here is anthropomorphism at its very best in its effort to reach to God. On The Art of Reading

And Behmen’s super-confessional and almost super-scriptural treatment of that frequent scriptural anthropomorphism,—‘unavoidable and yet intolerable,’—the wrath of God, must be left by me in Behmen’s own bold pages. Jacob Behmen an appreciation

Yet in ways which I have no space for, it abounds in the sort of anthropomorphism that might be expected from the average medium or average sitter, but not from George Eliot. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3

There is an impassable gulf between anthropomorphism, however refined and the passionless impersonality underlying the thin veil of phenomena. The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers

Some, among whom I count myself, think that the battle will for ever remain a drawn one, and that, for all practical purposes, this result is as good as anthropomorphism winning the day. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

So soon as we go beyond this, we enter upon the region of fanciful anthropomorphism, of extra belief, aberglaube, which always revenges itself. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

His anthropomorphism is surprising, and a little of it only, amusing. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary

It became more spiritual; anthropomorphisms were removed, and the transcendence of God above the world was more strictly maintained. Outspoken Essays

It made anthropomorphism and the absolute the very base and spring alike of individual and of social life. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)

Still less is there anything unscientific, or anti-scientific, in this infantile anthropomorphism. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

Hinduism had not been wanting in anthropomorphisms: it had imagined the presence of God in a thousand visible objects which rude men could appreciate. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

M. Reinach thinks there must have been some analogy between them, and that was hostility to anthropomorphism. The Religion of the Ancient Celts

He brings it into close relation with Platonism and purifies it; he clears away its anthropomorphisms and superstitious fantasies, or rather he raises them into idealistic conceptions and sublime exaltations of the soul. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria

Heaven forbid that I should suggest there is anthropomorphism in this. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19

If we wish to think of "Nature's" proscriptions or plans as controlling animal life, the anthropomorphism is substantially harmless. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family

Stars are just on the same footing, and their movements are explained by the same ready system of universal anthropomorphism. Custom and Myth

I have tried to show, not only that the attempt to interpret nature in terms of man is not a superstitious anthropomorphism, but that such an interpretation is implied in all rational thought. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

It was full of anthropomorphism, and it seemed wanting in that which the Greek world admired above all things—a systematic theology and systematic ethics. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria

The masses, always inclined to anthropomorphism in religion and morals, like best of all the little gods who have the same weaknesses as themselves. The Duel and Other Stories

This is but an exaggerated form of anthropomorphism—the conception of God as a Man raised to great proportions. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

No, we mustn't have any regard for human consistency—it's a very paltry attribute; it's the opposite of anthropomorphism. Father Payne

The charge of anthropomorphism thus falls to the ground, because it would prove too much. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

With these classes the prevalence of ritual and anthropomorphism are not so much a matter of reversion as of continued development out of the past. Theory of the Leisure Class

Possibly the most pathetic of all the delusions of the modern students of primitive belief is the notion they have about the thing they call anthropomorphism. Heretics

I admit that every affirmation or hypothesis of Divinity proceeds from anthropomorphism, and that God in the first place is only the ideal, or rather, the spectre of man. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery

The attribution of justice, equity, and love to the Supreme Being is pure anthropomorphism; and the adjectives just, merciful, pitiful, and the like, should be stricken from our litanies. What is Property?

These stories had their origin, my dear," she explained, "in a mistaken anthropomorphism in the interpretation of nature. The Golden Age

The barbarian culture shows sportsmanship, status, and anthropomorphism. Theory of the Leisure Class

The citation from the Psalms is a rebuke to gross anthropomorphism: Caliban, like the Puritans, has simply made God in his own image. Robert Browning: How to Know Him

He was very wise in adopting the strong anthropomorphism of the Hebrew Scriptures at once. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The strong 'anthropomorphism' of the representation that man's prayer and alms keep God in mind of him needs no vindication and little explanation. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts

With daring anthropomorphism, the prophet puts into God's mouth a longing for the enemies to measure their strength against His, a warrior's eagerness for the fight. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah

Closely bound up with this correlation of anthropomorphism and prowess is the fact that anthropomorphic cults act to conserve, if not to initiate, habits of mind favorable to a regime of status. Theory of the Leisure Class

There is no attempt at describing, nor at softening down, the frank 'anthropomorphism' of the representation, which is the less likely to mislead the more complete it is. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII

But the figure is transparent, and the 'anthropomorphism' so plain that no mistakes can arise in its interpretation. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

Like many poets, he never disabused his mind of this comfortable form of anthropomorphism. Old Calabria

It is all but lacking in poetic touches and concrete detail of this kind, and such an anthropomorphism as vii. Introduction to the Old Testament

So also as regards anthropomorphism in this class. Theory of the Leisure Class

It is anthropomorphism, not canonization, that befits its temper and its lure. The French in the Heart of America

People say, 'that is anthropomorphism—making God too like a man.' Expositions of Holy Scripture

The absurdities of anthropomorphism have never been the subject of more brilliant jesting than in Lucian’s satires. A History of Freedom of Thought

They hated superstitions, and attacked the anthropomorphism of their day. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations

Throughout the eighties, and less plainly traceable through the seventies also, there was perceptible a gradually advancing wave of sentiment favoring quasi-predatory business habits, insistence on status, anthropomorphism, and conservatism generally. Theory of the Leisure Class

Such teaching was not a narrow anthropomorphism but the adaptation to the intellectual capacity of the unlettered multitude of the very deepest truths of what we now call Mental Science. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

That is a strong 'anthropomorphism,' like many other things in Genesis—very natural when these records were written, and bearing a true meaning for all times. Expositions of Holy Scripture

The latter contended, in particular, that the biblical anthropomorphisms were destructive of a belief in the pure spirituality of God. Judaism

There is anthropomorphism in literature as well as in theology: for George Eliot Nature is steeped in humanity; she cannot see anything for itself. Without Prejudice

—Letters to: —on his son Noel's death: his philosophy. —on species and sterility: anthropomorphism. —intellect in man and animals: genius a "sport": Christian dogmas criticised. —matter and spirit. —on prayer. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3

For Bergson, God is anthropomorphic—as He must necessarily be for us all— but Bergson's is anthropomorphism of a subtle kind. Bergson and His Philosophy

It is also, in the strong anthropomorphism of the narrative, a remembrancer to God. Expositions of Holy Scripture

This view may be only the outcome of our inevitable anthropomorphism which we cannot escape from, no matter how deep we dive or high we soar. Time and Change

Well," said Phil, "I like your rector, in spite of his anthropomorphism—perhaps, as George would say, because of it. The Inside of the Cup — Complete

Well," said Phil, "I like your rector, in spite of his anthropomorphism —perhaps, as George would say, because of it. The Inside of the Cup — Volume 01

But we must give up the revengeful idea of God: that is imported into our scale of values by the grossest anthropomorphism. Where No Fear Was

He considered anthropomorphism to explain satisfactorily not only the swan maiden, and the other feathered ladies 526 of the Nights, but also angel and devil. The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Better the simple anthropomorphism which makes God like the good father, the generous uncle, the indulgent grandfather, or the strong elder brother. An Autobiography

I should have explained my theory which is shortly, that we must seek a material basis for all so-called supernaturalisms, and that anthropomorphism satisfactorily explains the Swan-maiden, as it does the angel and the devil. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08

But, after all, these retain in their anthropomorphism the marks of the earliest fancy, the fancy of Eskimos and Australians. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1

Immediately, I was ashamed of my lapse into anthropomorphism. Yet Again

We are all of us born in sin, in that sin which is to science "the seventh and deadliest," anthropomorphism, we are egocentric, ego-projective. Darwin and Modern Science

Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity. A History of Science — Volume 1

Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry. Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc

The soul of the world is framed on the analogy of the soul of man, and many traces of anthropomorphism blend with Plato's highest flights of idealism. Timaeus

The tendency to animism and later to anthropomorphism is I say inevitable, and perfectly logical. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning

And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die. The Valley of the Moon

That words should be credited with sex is a verbal anthropomorphism that would seem to a Japanese exquisitely grotesque, if so be that it did not strike him as actually immodest. The Soul of the Far East

I think that our incurable anthropomorphism made us imagine there were human heads inside their masks. The First Men in the Moon

单词	anthropomorphism
例句	anthropomorphism All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Those unfamiliar with horses might scoff at the notion of equine pride as a silly anthropomorphism, but the behavior is unmistakable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that I realized just how deep into the madness of pet anthropomorphism I had sunk. Anthropomorphism and the World of Canine Luxuries 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z This approach – only the social scientists persistently call it anthropomorphism; dog lovers tend to regard it as entirely acceptable behaviour – is widely frowned upon by most animal behaviourists as inhumane. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s not mere anthropomorphism to say that the wolves were smart and kind. Review \| This husband-and-wife team ran with wolves for years. Here’s what they learned. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z With reference to chimpanzees, for example, James Marsh's Project Nim showed what happened when a Columbia University professor took anthropomorphism to its logical extreme by raising a chimp as if it were a human. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z What it's looking at and what we're seeing, naming and embellishing with our own uniquely human anthropomorphisms, are a universe apart, no matter how many scientific tags and labels we might impose. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z Writing about this is difficult and skiddy work, prone to anthropomorphism. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z He indulges in anthropomorphism: Bookcases “stare,” books display an attitude of “mute resentment,” trees “press forward with desperate eagerness.” John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, is an expert on anthropomorphism, or attributing humanlike characteristics to non-humans. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk Amy Leach's superficially very different book Things That Are, a collection of short whimsical pieces about animals, could be read as attempting a rewilding of the reader's imagination, through the ancient device of anthropomorphism. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z The movie only fleetingly succumbs to anthropomorphism in line drawings that show a half-human Tulip in a dress, holding court. \| 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog 2010-08-31T22:37:00Z Today, a lot of scientists are saying it's actually a mistake to be against anthropomorphism. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z Another new film in this vein throws the anthropomorphism debate into fresh relief. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z But then "Dog Days" is about as far from conventional as contemporary opera gets — a post-apocalyptic scenario melded into the form of musical theater, with a good dose of reverse canine anthropomorphism. L.A. Opera broadens scope with post-apocalyptic 'Dog Days' at REDCAT 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Some of the cartoonish anthropomorphism of the creatures is a little offputting at first, but there's a childlike charm on show as well. Catch-up TV guide: from My Little Princess to Daria 2013-03-16T06:00:04Z Any anthropomorphism must be forgiven; it is impossible not to be struck by the humanoid nature of these neighbors on the evolutionary chain. Trekking With the Gorillas of Rwanda 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The anthropomorphism of dogs is not a new phenomenon. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Liz is hardly the only example of residential anthropomorphism to hit the market in recent years. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z And an extra ring of a cowbell to Darick Pead, who executes a splendid act of anthropomorphism in herding a character by the name of Milky White into the spotlight. Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale musical for grown-ups . . . 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z That Vizl’s images prompt such questions without excessive anthropomorphism is part of his book’s generosity. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need and instinct. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z True, rank anthropomorphism presents certain dangers; if we abandon plant-centrism in favor of projecting human qualities onto fungi, Sheldrake concedes, we risk failing to understand an organism on its own terms. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z This is different to mere anthropomorphism – ascribing human characteristics to animals. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The lizards, rodents and other creepy-crawlies that populate its desert landscape are far more grotesque to behold than traditional Disney fauna, but their ugliness only adds an extra frisson to the film’s charming anthropomorphism. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z I'm not a fan of using the anthropomorphism card. Do animals feel shame or are they faking it? An expert unmasks what dogs and cats may really feel 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z As for making yourself unpopular, you might as well show up to a university lecture wearing Christopher Robin shorts and white bobby socks as be accused of anthropomorphism. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The fine catalog to “Through Vincent’s Eyes” points to the anthropomorphism of those undulating trees, which seem to dance furiously in the vivid light of a bright blue sky, just outside the hospital’s confines. Review: What made Van Gogh tick? A Santa Barbara show offers surprising answers 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Tech companies are also putting efforts into anthropomorphism — making robots look and move like humans — which, when combined with advanced AI, is making "robot friends" a real possibility. Robots are coming for the elderly — and that's a good thing 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z They smack of narcissism, anthropomorphism and wishful thinking. Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z And so the days of anthropomorphism need to, or the word "anthropomorphism" needs to disappear from our vocabulary. Ingrid Newkirk's new book "Animalkind" argues that animals' individuality is underestimated 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z My notion of anthropomorphism kept changing as I spent time with him. How I found myself befriending a wild fox 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z This is not entirely a bad thing, and the movie, which begins streaming Friday on Disney+, emerges a generally charming, sometimes cloying exercise in wildlife anthropomorphism. Review: Disneynature doc 'Elephant' is gorgeous if much too obvious (tusk, tusk) 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Trees are prone to anthropomorphism; we project our dreams and our anxieties onto them. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The Planet Earth team notoriously don't approve of anthropomorphism - that is, attributing human characteristics to animals - and Meech says "persuading the BBC" to approve the storyline "was a challenge". Unseen Planet Earth footage debuts in music video 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z And while scientists often caution against anthropomorphism, it provides another point of comparison between us and these intelligent and emotionally complex marine mammals. Grandmother orcas help their grand-whales survive 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z He depicts it without a shred of anthropomorphism. Paws for thought: pet portraits are on the rise. But can they ever truly be art? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z They are betting, in effect, on the anthropomorphism of retail. The Impossible Alchemy of Barneys at Saks 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “More generally, our goal is to further explore various types of anthropomorphism towards human-like devices,” the paper concluded. These creepy artificial skin phone cases makes phones pinchable, ticklish 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Dr Dale argues that anthropomorphism doesn't ultimately help the elephants, though. Do elephants risk their lives to save each other? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But at every turn the exacting digital realism clashes with and cancels out the anthropomorphism, the glorious and unapologetic cartoonishness, that is crucial to this story’s success. 'The Lion King' is a huge hit. It might also be Disney's most dispiriting remake yet 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Working in the grandiose, psychedelic style that he has for years, Blomerth’s “Bicycle Day” imports Hofmann’s riveting yarn from the annals of medical history to comics with busy panels and rampant anthropomorphism. In 1943, a scientist took a bike ride on LSD. Brian Blomerth illustrates his historic trip 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Misleading anthropomorphisms are another, all too familiar, bugbear. The return of cancer’s magic bullet 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z I started to refer to the caterpillar as Lincoln, too—an anthropomorphism that I hoped Professor Brower, with whom I’d traveled to Mexico a number of times to see the butterflies, would have forgiven. The Vanishing Flights of the Monarch Butterfly 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z But that kind of anthropomorphism is common in Japan, said Markus, the Stanford cultural scientist. America's love-hate relationship with Marie Kondo and our clutter 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Their magnificence, their appearance of cuddliness, their ferocity, their vulnerability, their anthropomorphism – all combine to make the death of a single male, at the hands of guides for a tourist cruise ship, worldwide news. Will giant cruise ships destroy the wonders their passengers claim to love? \| Rowan Moore 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z They call this anthropomorphism, and they discourage it. Opinion \| The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Like his first one, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” this is both a celebration and sendup of cartoon anthropomorphism. Review \| Wes Anderson brings his jewel-box aesthetic to Japan with ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It is the ultimate act of anthropomorphism: to reconfigure creation in our own image. We’ve despoiled the Earth … now artificial stars are ruining space \| Philip Hoare 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z A real difference is that, in my training in the last 10-20 years, the idea was to avoid anything that even looked like anthropomorphism. How Diverse Personalities Help Animals Survive 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Anthropomorphizing animals is a common strategy in science journalism and imbuing animals with human qualities can have positive outcomes; this is known as empathetic anthropomorphism. The Rise of the Bro Tortoise 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z With all this textbook anthropomorphism, it is hard to see the real rabbit without imagining his life in a comfy rabbit hole, nattily dressed in a sensible wool coat and shoes. Here Comes Eastern Cottontail 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Beth Singler, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, says it’s hard to avoid the anthropomorphism that leads to mulling the issue of robot rights. Pretending to give a robot citizenship helps no one 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Each time round they asked the volunteers to rate the robot on a number of criteria including likability, anthropomorphism, and perceived intelligence. Why do we like robots more when they mess up? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Ms Yallop’s main theme, however, is “the puzzle of anthropomorphism” and “how much animal instinct can look like human thought or emotion”. The consolation of animals 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z According to Rowley and Johnson, this type of anthropomorphism says little about the animal about which we are speaking and more about how humans perceive humanity via animals. The Rise of the Bro Tortoise 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But they themselves regularly redraw the line between good science and anthropomorphism as a way of policing scientific discourse and favoring particular ideas. Duck Sex and the Patriarchy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z When he encounters a giant red turtle, however, he embarks on an altogether surprising relationship that tests the boundaries of interspecies understanding, and the notion of anthropomorphism itself. ‘The Red Turtle,’ from Studio Ghibli, is a lyrical escape into silence and solitude 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Of course, sharing emotion and anthropomorphism are not specific to the Chinese internet - this happens all over the world. How a dog made Chinese netizens share the pain of rejection - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet he also says that these feathered friends resist anthropomorphism, since they are skittish and nomadic. The consolation of animals 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The anthropomorphism in this otherwise compelling book is more spice than it needs. Dendrology: The community of trees : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z However, there are a growing number of writers who suggest that anthropomorphism is not all bad. How Guy the gorilla became the star of London Zoo - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Or else they went in for anthropomorphism, and reveled in the implicit absurdity. William Wegman: the 'dog artist' who still leads the pack 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Some warn that anthropomorphism, now regularly demonstrated through the online sharing of videos of pandas having tantrums or orangutans having a laugh, can be harmful. Anthropomorphism: how much humans and animals share is still contested 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Ironically, this capacity for anthropomorphism may be one of the things that, ultimately, make us human. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo \| Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “It seems crazy, doesn’t it?” said Ann McGill, also a professor of behavioral science at Booth who studies product and brand anthropomorphism — our practice of projecting human qualities onto the things we buy. Sorry, but Your Favorite Company Can’t Be Your Friend 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z On paper, it sounds like Pixar in self-parody mode, applying the anthropomorphism of "Toy Story" and "Cars" to a movie about the wacky adventures of human emotions. New releases: 'Inside Out' -- a beautiful illustration of what growing up feels like 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The pro-bullfighting lobby often accuse their critics of anthropomorphism – the attribution of human qualities to animals – although they are hardly immune from this tendency. It was Spain’s ‘national fiesta’. Now bullfighting divides its people 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Eppink says one of his favorite moments was watching a dad discuss the effects of anthropomorphism with his young daughters. 8 Things I Learned at a Museum Exhibit About Internet Cats 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo \| Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z When I was a college student majoring in biology more than 30 years ago, ascribing human emotions and motives to animals—anthropomorphism—was frowned on. Introduction to a Special Edition on Cats and Dogs 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s not ambition or technical know-how or even plucky resourcefulness that save the day in “Jurassic World,” it’s good old-fashioned anthropomorphism. Review: ‘Jurassic World’ ups the ante, with mixed success 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Furthermore, it was not an example of anthropomorphism, where human characteristics are attributed to animals, says Mr Cassels, a Canadian studying at Cambridge on a scholarship funded by the Gates Foundation. Children 'more likely to confide in pets than siblings' - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z We were … interested in evaluating framing as an alternative mechanism to influence anthropomorphism. Want People To Like Your Robot? Name It Frank, Give It A Story 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Nature writers, however, avoid anthropomorphism like the proverbial plague. What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo \| Stephen Moss 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The concept of corporate anthropomorphism was crisply summed up by Mitt Romney during his most recent run for president, when he told a heckler in 2011 that “corporations are people, my friend.” The Cost of Campaigns 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Let’s hope they realize the risks of their anthropomorphism before they step across the threshold. Corporations, 'artificial people' and the unintended risks of Hobby Lobby 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Yet avoiding anthropomorphism at all costs may be the main cause of the schism between scientists and the public in the debate about animal sentience. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In everyday life, the process of deciding whether or not to ascribe human qualities like thinking, feeling, and intentional action to people, animals, or objects can be called anthropomorphism, or mind perception. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z The senator’s quip might be regarded as a particularly startling admission of ignorance – not to mention anthropomorphism – if it weren’t one of the oldest ploys in the creationist playbook. Monday morning levity: Louisiana senator asks if E. coli evolve into persons 2013-01-21T17:15:00.193Z I think what he was getting at is this: AI is bedevilled by anthropomorphism. Will Eaves: What I'm thinking about ... artificial intelligence 2012-08-20T08:00:52Z Dr Clive Wynne, professor of psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, US describes anthropomorphism as "a mistake" when "trying to understand animal behaviour." Chimpanzees behave 'like people' 2012-05-23T09:15:28Z At its worst, anthropomorphism, the fallacy of attributing human characteristics to nonhumans, leads us to imbue animals with our perceptions and motives, reducing the worldview of another species to a bush-league version of our own. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Finally, just as feeling powerless or like one is living in an unpredictable world can increase anthropomorphism, feeling powerful or like one is living in a stable, predictable world can increase dehumanization as well. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z Is there one who admits that we can, without anthropomorphism, understand literally all the attributes that we impute to the Deity? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z A few commenters objected to the anthropomorphism involved in bestowing names on wild animals, but we need to call them something as we report on their young lives. City Room: Hawk Cam 2012: Final Chance to Name the Baby Hawks 2012-04-17T16:10:06Z Through all anthropomorphisms of thought and language this line of light still passed inviolate and inviolable. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Virga told me that encountering misgivings about anthropomorphism once made him timid about expressing his convictions. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Social cognition unbound: Insights into anthropomorphism and dehumanization. The Zombies In Our Midst 2013-10-31T14:45:09.613Z For thousands of years men could only conceive of evil as an animal with horns and a tail, going about the world devouring folk; abstract conceptions had to be made understandable by a crude anthropomorphism. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Who does not see that to represent things otherwise is to remain in the crudest and least religious of anthropomorphisms? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z This "rubbing off" business he also applies to the God of the Bible, whose characteristic anthropomorphism "Rationalist," of course, rubs all off, even his intelligence. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z We must not indeed suppose it to be a general law of religious evolution that “theriomorphism” must always precede anthropomorphism and that the latter transcends and obliterates the former. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The anthropomorphism of the Jewish Scriptures has already been referred to in Vol. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z All these ideas, which are concomitants of the concept of progress, are childish anthropomorphism when applied to the universe. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Their efforts to purge the Koran of anthropomorphism made no impression on the faithful, who ardently hoped to see God in Paradise face to face. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z It is only the anthropomorphism we attack—only the superstitions, assumptions and dogmas. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z Throughout the poem, as in many of Chaucer’s writings, there is a curious mingling of pagan and Christian elements, a strange juxtaposition of astrological notions, Greek anthropomorphism and mediaeval Christian philosophy. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z This sets it apart from many narrative science books for children which often rely on anthropomorphisms. Having a great science conversation with a kid 2011-10-12T14:45:09.293Z With the anthropomorphism peculiar to the earliest stages of thought, man personified the mysterious powers which ruled his fate. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z It were a sin, it were anthropomorphism, to assume such an identity of God and his prophet; but the resemblance is most striking. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The older traits show themselves partly in the manifestation of various Els, and partly in the cruder anthropomorphism of the earlier sources. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z It is a very simple means of freeing theodicea from every shade of anthropomorphism; it is reducing God to an abstraction, to the abstraction of being in itself. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The prospect is arguably rife with anthropomorphism, the supposed bane of all nonhuman animal consciousness studies. Animal emotion: When objectivity fails 2011-04-28T13:15:01.950Z It thus differed from Hebrew anthropomorphism, with which in other respects it had so much in common. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z He was untainted, so far as a human being ever can be, by "anthropomorphism"; he endeavoured to transcend the merely human outlook. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Of course it would be mere unreflecting anthropomorphism to attribute to unconscious agencies a conscious subjection to the attracting and directing influence of such causes. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Far removed from such crass anthropomorphism, but not morally much improved, are the kindred Wa-Swahili, who by long contact and interminglings have become largely Arabised in dress, religion, and general culture. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z At some point, it might be that we should, in the words of cognitive ethologist Marc Bekoff, "get over the issue of anthropomorphism and move on—there’s important work to be done." Animal emotion: When objectivity fails 2011-04-28T13:15:01.950Z Behind the lineaments of Hebrew anthropomorphism ghost or goblin are not to be found. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z I do not buy the anthropomorphism that marks out certain horses as keen competitors, having never seen any concrete evidence that the animals know they are in a race. My bad luck at cards paid dividends at the Cheltenham Festival 2011-03-21T00:05:04Z This conception of efficient causality even in the inanimate things of external nature, after the analogy of our own vital powers as revealed in our conscious activities, is sometimes disparaged as naïve anthropomorphism. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Before long, humans were committing wholesale acts of anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics and motives to anything with a face, a voice, a trajectory — bears, bats, thunderstorms, the moon. The Creature Connection 2011-03-14T17:14:39Z “God” is simply, by anthropomorphism, “the Master on High.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The anthropomorphism of Semitic Babylonia is reflected in the anthropomorphism of the Israelites. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z This is the fundamental idea that urged the polytheistic peoples along the path of religious anthropomorphism. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z If we compare them we shall find that, notwithstanding many differences, the notion of action in general involves a “simple” or “unmixed” perfection which can, without anthropomorphism, be applied analogically to the Divine Action. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The anthropomorphism of the story is as vivid as in those Homeric scenes in which gods and men contend with one another in battle. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z Mr. Wilson — a k a Raff — is careful, of course, to avoid anthropomorphism as he writes about the ant colonies at Lake Nokobee. Books of The Times: ?Anthill? by E. O. Wilson: Coming-of-Age Tale 2010-04-08T20:48:00Z Some critics complain that the term “animal personality” is a bit too slick, while others worry that the entire enterprise smacks of that dread golem of biology, anthropomorphism — assigning human traits to nonhuman beings. Basics: Even Among Animals: Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z He drew his central principle from Eastern pantheism, which might seem irreconcilable with the anthropomorphism of the West. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In a general sense anthropomorphism is the assumption of man that his own characteristics are present in beings or things widely different from himself, more particularly in forces of nature and gods. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli But when theists charge one another with “anthropomorphism,” in order to rebuke what they deem unduly manlike conceptions of God, they stand on slippery ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" But there is no stinting a veiled, almost structural anthropomorphism here. Books of The Times: ?Anthill? by E. O. Wilson: Coming-of-Age Tale 2010-04-08T20:48:00Z Certainly, this is something more than what the naturalists have called "anthropomorphism." Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies But the thin abstractions of the old Latin faith and the brilliant anthropomorphism of Greece had ceased to satisfy even the crowd. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Stars are just on the same footing, and their movements are explained by the same ready system of universal anthropomorphism. Custom and Myth New Edition The following anecdote is characteristic of the strong tendency of human nature towards anthropomorphism. A Treatise on Relics Between pantheism and Unitarianism he seems to have balanced till his thirty-fifth year, always tending towards the former in virtue of the recoil from “anthropomorphism” which originally took him to Unitarianism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Pushed on by the influence of the lower population, it fell into the depths of anthropomorphism, asserting for the Virgin and the saints such attributes as omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition With regard to the anthropomorphism of the Hebrew story, that is shared, and must be shared, by all religions—that is, all religious which rest upon the notion of a personal God. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 There is no limit to the anthropomorphism of the language which Mr. Wells currently employs. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' They are also the direct antitheses to the scepticism of Montaigne and Pascal, to the materialism of Gassendi and Hobbes, and to the superstitious anthropomorphism which defaced the reawakening sciences of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" His anthropomorphism is not a projection of himself into nature, but an absorption of nature in himself. Whitman A Study It is anthropomorphism in another form, less fraught with evil to us, but equally in the way of a clear understanding of the life about us. Ways of Nature Any devout Theist, who candidly thought over this petty fiction, would find its gross anthropomorphism inexpressibly shocking. Bible Romances First Series He question of why oxygen and hydrogen form water is a prompting of anthropomorphism. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yes, all theology is anthropomorphism—the making of gods in man's image. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) What could it end in but anthropomorphism, or pantheism, or, rejecting both, a Religion of Humanity, with a background of an imbecile Unknowable? The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The attempts to discover it, made by Theology and Metaphysics, have been nothing more than elaborate anthropomorphisms, in which men gave to the unknown and unknowable reality, a form which was borrowed from their own. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 But he will not slide into anthropomorphism, nor give to this Supreme Thing, which recalls Shelley's Demogorgon, the shape of a man. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle We thus see that the rise from zoomorphism to anthropomorphism which the Greeks afterwards carried to the highest point attainable by the resources of art, began in Babylonia. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Evidently, though much refined, the anthropomorphism of the current hypothesis is inherited from the aboriginal anthropomorphism, which described gods as a stronger order of men. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The naive anthropomorphism of the savage makes his a god of a mighty arm, a giant in stature, puissant and terrible. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion But the superstition and anthropomorphism mingled with their faith did not make him think it less enviable. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 But in the first place, the use of the epithets implies an anthropomorphism to which we have no right so long as we are dealing with the inferior species. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Having disposed of crude anthropomorphism we must now take up the problem of attributes, which endangers the unity. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Did God first reveal himself in human form, and if so, how could their conception of God advance beyond a rude anthropomorphism? Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles With the progress of man's intelligence we shall observe improvement in this anthropomorphism, but it will still survive. Moon Lore Nevertheless there is very real danger in anthropomorphism,—in thus leaving the world of reality. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds But there are never wanting minds to whom such views seem personal and contracted, and allied to an anthropomorphism long exploded in other fields of knowledge. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The crude anthropomorphism of many expressions in the Bible as well as the Koran offended the more sophisticated thinkers ever since Alexandrian days. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The school of Elea rejected the gross anthropomorphism of the Homeric theology. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Here again we see the working of sexual anthropomorphism. Moon Lore This metaphysical theory, one of the many varieties of mens agitat molem, being, like every other, a personal conception, it is superfluous to discuss or criticise its evident anthropomorphism. Essay on the Creative Imagination At least from April to September he sang every day, and if my interpretation be anthropomorphic, why, so much the better for anthropomorphism. Edge of the Jungle Despite its predominant anthropomorphism, however, the Bible does give us hints of God's spirituality so that the thoughtful reader may also have food for his thought. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Taken as a serious statement of fact, the anthropomorphism of the vulgar belief was open to the objections which Socrates brought against the Pagan mythology. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill This discovery it is which in the long run proves fatal to anthropomorphism. The Idea of God in Early Religions Without speaking at this time of the hypotheses admitted as such and on account of their usefulness, there yet remain in the sciences many latent signs of primitive anthropomorphism. Essay on the Creative Imagination In anthropomorphism there are many errors, but there is one truth. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative We have already spoken of Maimonides's general attitude toward the anthropomorphisms in the Bible and the manner in which he accounts for the style and mode of expression of the Biblical writers. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy But the anthropomorphism, which it seemed his object to set aside, is as firmly associated with the creation of a few forms as with the creation of a multitude. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Without any scientific information available, for example, anthropomorphism, or the tendency to interpret cosmic phenomena in human terms is quite natural and reasonable. Human Traits and their Social Significance Christianity offered almost no field for the exercise of Greek anthropomorphism. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Its anthropomorphism is only, to unobservant minds, less apparent. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative It is not here a question of anthropomorphism. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Moreover the religions of those people were much farther advanced, much richer in ideas and sentiments, more striking and stirring than the Greco-Latin anthropomorphism. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Even the works of Darwin which, according to the opinion of these opponents of anthropomorphism, destroy anthropomorphism and teleology, are the most striking proof in favor of it. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality This is the main source of the inevitable anthropomorphism of religion. The Moral Economy This persistent anthropomorphism is revealed in our religious ceremonies. Christianity and Progress The best justification which can be offered for the expression sons of the universe as applied to these invisible companions is to be found in the inevitable anthropomorphism of all human thought. The Complex Vision Nothing but that low anthropomorphism which, unfortunately, he so often seems to treat as the necessary result of Theism. On the Genesis of Species It may be used as a reproach in warning against careless reasoning and hasty comparison, but the idea of anthropomorphism is so extensible that it can be extended over all human reasoning and conception. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Xenophanes attacks the religion of his times on the ground of its crude anthropomorphism. The Moral Economy Philosophical thought was antagonistic to anthropomorphism, which, as we have seen, was the most characteristic feature of popular religion in Greece, and which was essential to Greek religious art. Religion and Art in Ancient Greece If this is "anthropomorphism," though strictly speaking it ought to be called "pan-psychism," then it is impossible for us to be too anthropomorphic. The Complex Vision He rejected the crude religious ideas of his nation, was opposed to anthropomorphism, but considered it his duty to conform publicly to this belief. The Necessity of Atheism We must be very careful in using anthropomorphism as a term of reproach. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality This is the belief of the adherents of anthropomorphism. Some Answered Questions In religious art, what corresponds to this is the struggle towards anthropomorphism—first to represent the gods in human form, and then to make that form the most perfect that human art can devise. Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Hindu mythology is famous for what I should like to hear called arrested personification, or arrested anthropomorphism. Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea How, therefore, shall we satisfy ourselves concerning the cause of that Being whom you suppose the Author of Nature, or, according to your system of anthropomorphism, the ideal world in which you trace the material? Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Is there even a single scientific description conceivable without its being full of anthropomorphisms? The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality That doctrine is intelligible and may be beautiful so long as we retain a sufficient degree of anthropomorphism. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists This is the evil of a certain type of anthropomorphism. Our Unitarian Gospel There is, however, another aspect of the charge of anthropomorphism�one which is more difficult to deal with because it affects at times the nature-mystic himself. Nature Mysticism But what is science but a kind of anthropomorphism? The Breath of Life No educated Christian, I imagine, believes in an anthropomorphic Deity in the sense in which this anthropomorphism is condemned in the noble passage of Xenophanes which he quotes in the first part of his work. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" In the case of the abstract conceptions necessary in speech, such anthropomorphism does not generally occur; yet we see that sensation and a physiological genesis are inseparable from an abstract conception. Myth and Science An Essay Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of, that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry. Health and Education There is no need, then, to be afraid of a charge of anthropomorphism, if only our conceptions of nature do not lag behind our clear knowledge of its forms and forces. Nature Mysticism I know that in this very statement I am idealizing the creative energy, but my reader will, I trust, excuse this inevitable anthropomorphism. The Breath of Life It is always the same song, it is anthropomorphism pure and simple. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil These abstract conceptions did not and do not result in the anthropomorphism of phenomena or ideas, but are transformed into entities which have a real existence. Myth and Science An Essay However, let none construe these utterances to be anthropomorphism, nor see in them the descent of the worlds of God into the grades of the creatures; nor should they lead thine Eminence to such assumptions. The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys Man may be clearly conscious of the symbolism of the idea, and yet, at the same time, grasp in it an incontestable intrinsic truth which he knows to be far above all mere anthropomorphism. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy Witchcraft and sorcery are the practical expressions of these beliefs; and they stand in the same relation to religious worship as the simple anthropomorphism of children, or savages, does to theology. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews But, if to make God talk at all be anthropomorphism, here is anthropomorphism at its very best in its effort to reach to God. On The Art of Reading And Behmen’s super-confessional and almost super-scriptural treatment of that frequent scriptural anthropomorphism,—‘unavoidable and yet intolerable,’—the wrath of God, must be left by me in Behmen’s own bold pages. Jacob Behmen an appreciation Yet in ways which I have no space for, it abounds in the sort of anthropomorphism that might be expected from the average medium or average sitter, but not from George Eliot. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 There is an impassable gulf between anthropomorphism, however refined and the passionless impersonality underlying the thin veil of phenomena. The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers Some, among whom I count myself, think that the battle will for ever remain a drawn one, and that, for all practical purposes, this result is as good as anthropomorphism winning the day. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews So soon as we go beyond this, we enter upon the region of fanciful anthropomorphism, of extra belief, aberglaube, which always revenges itself. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant His anthropomorphism is surprising, and a little of it only, amusing. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It became more spiritual; anthropomorphisms were removed, and the transcendence of God above the world was more strictly maintained. Outspoken Essays It made anthropomorphism and the absolute the very base and spring alike of individual and of social life. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Still less is there anything unscientific, or anti-scientific, in this infantile anthropomorphism. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Hinduism had not been wanting in anthropomorphisms: it had imagined the presence of God in a thousand visible objects which rude men could appreciate. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 M. Reinach thinks there must have been some analogy between them, and that was hostility to anthropomorphism. The Religion of the Ancient Celts He brings it into close relation with Platonism and purifies it; he clears away its anthropomorphisms and superstitious fantasies, or rather he raises them into idealistic conceptions and sublime exaltations of the soul. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Heaven forbid that I should suggest there is anthropomorphism in this. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 If we wish to think of "Nature's" proscriptions or plans as controlling animal life, the anthropomorphism is substantially harmless. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Stars are just on the same footing, and their movements are explained by the same ready system of universal anthropomorphism. Custom and Myth I have tried to show, not only that the attempt to interpret nature in terms of man is not a superstitious anthropomorphism, but that such an interpretation is implied in all rational thought. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher It was full of anthropomorphism, and it seemed wanting in that which the Greek world admired above all things—a systematic theology and systematic ethics. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria The masses, always inclined to anthropomorphism in religion and morals, like best of all the little gods who have the same weaknesses as themselves. The Duel and Other Stories This is but an exaggerated form of anthropomorphism—the conception of God as a Man raised to great proportions. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga No, we mustn't have any regard for human consistency—it's a very paltry attribute; it's the opposite of anthropomorphism. Father Payne The charge of anthropomorphism thus falls to the ground, because it would prove too much. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher With these classes the prevalence of ritual and anthropomorphism are not so much a matter of reversion as of continued development out of the past. Theory of the Leisure Class Possibly the most pathetic of all the delusions of the modern students of primitive belief is the notion they have about the thing they call anthropomorphism. Heretics I admit that every affirmation or hypothesis of Divinity proceeds from anthropomorphism, and that God in the first place is only the ideal, or rather, the spectre of man. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery The attribution of justice, equity, and love to the Supreme Being is pure anthropomorphism; and the adjectives just, merciful, pitiful, and the like, should be stricken from our litanies. What is Property? These stories had their origin, my dear," she explained, "in a mistaken anthropomorphism in the interpretation of nature. The Golden Age The barbarian culture shows sportsmanship, status, and anthropomorphism. Theory of the Leisure Class The citation from the Psalms is a rebuke to gross anthropomorphism: Caliban, like the Puritans, has simply made God in his own image. Robert Browning: How to Know Him He was very wise in adopting the strong anthropomorphism of the Hebrew Scriptures at once. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The strong 'anthropomorphism' of the representation that man's prayer and alms keep God in mind of him needs no vindication and little explanation. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts With daring anthropomorphism, the prophet puts into God's mouth a longing for the enemies to measure their strength against His, a warrior's eagerness for the fight. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Closely bound up with this correlation of anthropomorphism and prowess is the fact that anthropomorphic cults act to conserve, if not to initiate, habits of mind favorable to a regime of status. Theory of the Leisure Class There is no attempt at describing, nor at softening down, the frank 'anthropomorphism' of the representation, which is the less likely to mislead the more complete it is. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII But the figure is transparent, and the 'anthropomorphism' so plain that no mistakes can arise in its interpretation. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Like many poets, he never disabused his mind of this comfortable form of anthropomorphism. Old Calabria It is all but lacking in poetic touches and concrete detail of this kind, and such an anthropomorphism as vii. Introduction to the Old Testament So also as regards anthropomorphism in this class. Theory of the Leisure Class It is anthropomorphism, not canonization, that befits its temper and its lure. The French in the Heart of America People say, 'that is anthropomorphism—making God too like a man.' Expositions of Holy Scripture The absurdities of anthropomorphism have never been the subject of more brilliant jesting than in Lucian’s satires. A History of Freedom of Thought They hated superstitions, and attacked the anthropomorphism of their day. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Throughout the eighties, and less plainly traceable through the seventies also, there was perceptible a gradually advancing wave of sentiment favoring quasi-predatory business habits, insistence on status, anthropomorphism, and conservatism generally. Theory of the Leisure Class Such teaching was not a narrow anthropomorphism but the adaptation to the intellectual capacity of the unlettered multitude of the very deepest truths of what we now call Mental Science. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science That is a strong 'anthropomorphism,' like many other things in Genesis—very natural when these records were written, and bearing a true meaning for all times. Expositions of Holy Scripture The latter contended, in particular, that the biblical anthropomorphisms were destructive of a belief in the pure spirituality of God. Judaism There is anthropomorphism in literature as well as in theology: for George Eliot Nature is steeped in humanity; she cannot see anything for itself. Without Prejudice —Letters to: —on his son Noel's death: his philosophy. —on species and sterility: anthropomorphism. —intellect in man and animals: genius a "sport": Christian dogmas criticised. —matter and spirit. —on prayer. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 For Bergson, God is anthropomorphic—as He must necessarily be for us all— but Bergson's is anthropomorphism of a subtle kind. Bergson and His Philosophy It is also, in the strong anthropomorphism of the narrative, a remembrancer to God. Expositions of Holy Scripture This view may be only the outcome of our inevitable anthropomorphism which we cannot escape from, no matter how deep we dive or high we soar. Time and Change Well," said Phil, "I like your rector, in spite of his anthropomorphism—perhaps, as George would say, because of it. The Inside of the Cup — Complete Well," said Phil, "I like your rector, in spite of his anthropomorphism —perhaps, as George would say, because of it. The Inside of the Cup — Volume 01 But we must give up the revengeful idea of God: that is imported into our scale of values by the grossest anthropomorphism. Where No Fear Was He considered anthropomorphism to explain satisfactorily not only the swan maiden, and the other feathered ladies 526 of the Nights, but also angel and devil. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Better the simple anthropomorphism which makes God like the good father, the generous uncle, the indulgent grandfather, or the strong elder brother. An Autobiography I should have explained my theory which is shortly, that we must seek a material basis for all so-called supernaturalisms, and that anthropomorphism satisfactorily explains the Swan-maiden, as it does the angel and the devil. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 But, after all, these retain in their anthropomorphism the marks of the earliest fancy, the fancy of Eskimos and Australians. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 Immediately, I was ashamed of my lapse into anthropomorphism. Yet Again We are all of us born in sin, in that sin which is to science "the seventh and deadliest," anthropomorphism, we are egocentric, ego-projective. Darwin and Modern Science Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity. A History of Science — Volume 1 Their very religion, in spite of its imperfections, helped forward their education, not in spite of, but by means of that anthropomorphism which we sometimes too hastily decry. Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc The soul of the world is framed on the analogy of the soul of man, and many traces of anthropomorphism blend with Plato's highest flights of idealism. Timaeus The tendency to animism and later to anthropomorphism is I say inevitable, and perfectly logical. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die. The Valley of the Moon That words should be credited with sex is a verbal anthropomorphism that would seem to a Japanese exquisitely grotesque, if so be that it did not strike him as actually immodest. The Soul of the Far East I think that our incurable anthropomorphism made us imagine there were human heads inside their masks. The First Men in the Moon
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