Crossword-Solution: ANTHROPOMORPHISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anthropomorphism | n. | The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections. |
| Anthropomorphism | n. | The ascription of human characteristics to things not human. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ANTHROPOMORPHISM”
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| HUMAN form and attributes to God, ascription of | 1 answer |
| PRINCIPLE according to which man is said to interpret all things through himself (psychol.) | 1 answer |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ANTHROPOMORPHISM (5)
Anthropomorphism and idolatry constituted of necessity the faith of the mind in its youth, the theology of infancy and poesy.
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.
Lamennais pretends to arrive at it by the sole force of argument; and he does not perceive that his pretended demonstration is, from beginning to end, anthropomorphism,--that is, an ascription of the faculties of the human mind and the powers of nature to the Divine substance.
The animistic habit acts in all cases to blur the appreciation of causal sequence; but the earlier, less reflected, less defined animistic sense of propensity may be expected to affect the intellectual processes of the individual in a more pervasive way than the higher forms of anthropomorphism.
Beyond these the same animistic sense shows itself also in such attenuations of anthropomorphism as the eighteenth-century appeal to an order of nature and natural rights, and in their modern representative, the ostensibly post-Darwinian concept of a meliorative trend in the process of evolution.
Quotes with ANTHROPOMORPHISM (3)
The being called God... bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.
Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.
The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.