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Our addiction to attributive adjectives.
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We humans differ radically from other animals because we use sophisticated symbolic languages in thinking and speaking. We use our languages to represent persons and things and to facilitate the creation of thoughts. We misuse our language when we misrepresent persons and things and create life-degrading thoughts. In the following pages, I'll examine one way in which I believe we misuse language.
Two sentences in Science and Sanity (page 384) outline this misuse:
"If we use a language of adjectives and subject-predicate forms pertaining to sense impressions, we ...
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Anthropomorphism and other figures of speech in James Joyce's Ulysses.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Dublin landscape. Analysing his anthropomorphism helps explain subjective transformations...feature of his subjective vision. Anthropomorphism is the projection of human characteristics...cries within him. (1) Analysing anthropomorphism as an outward projection of what...
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Critical anthropomorphism, animal suffering, and the ecological context. (section 3) (Animals, Science, and Ethics; includes American Veterinary Medical Association classification of adverse states in animals)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report
; ...animal? Here, we examine ways of answering such questions, concentrating upon critical anthropomorphism. Critical Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics (including the projection of subjective states...
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Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Magazine article from: Environmental History
; ...with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Edited by Lorraine Daston &...50. The original meaning of "anthropomorphism"-anthro (man) + morphos (change...heresy in some Christian sects. Anthropomorphism in its currently more common usage...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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A defense of anthropomorphism: comparing Coetzee and Gowdy.(J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Gowdy)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...animal sentience in human terms, anthropomorphism can be a valuable and sophisticated...revolve around the problems posed by anthropomorphism, the projection of the characteristics...the original meaning of the word "anthropomorphism" refers to the error of casting...
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What makes anthropomorphism natural: intuitive ontology and cultural representations.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...this 'continuity' hypothesis, anthropomorphism is widespread because it is intuitive...representations. The evidence: anthropomorphism as counter-intuitive In order to...implied by 'childhood animism' or anthropomorphism, it is necessary to have a broader...
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A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat, A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism: Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab...interpretations that avoid anthropomorphism. In doing so, he proposes...from it, the debate over anthropomorphism was raging in Ibn al-Jawzi...
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Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Magazine article from: Environmental History
; ...With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University...Investigates the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and...Offers a sampling of the uses of anthropomorphism and its transformative effects on...
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Anthropomorphism and the evolution of cognition. (response to Pascal Boyer, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 2, p. 83, 1996)(includes reply)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...Pascal Boyer provides a persuasive argument for what makes anthropomorphism natural: the very fact that it is counter-intuitive...in other words, they are easy to grasp. Consequently anthropomorphism is a pervasive, perhaps universal, way of thinking...
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Analyzing Anthropomorphisms.(using anthropomorphic texts in science education)
Magazine article from: Science and Children
; ...for Science Literacy (1993), AAAS worries that the anthropomorphism embedded in most animal stories may be misleading many...primary students. To involve students in the analysis of anthropomorphisms, you will need a collection of nonfiction and fiction...
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Part spaniel, part canine puzzle: anthropomorphism in Woolf's Flush and Auster's Timbuktu.(Virginia Woolf, Flush: A Biography, Paul Auster)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...exploration of traditional and "new" literary anthropomorphism and the fascination, problems, and limitations...consciousness and deprived of its own agency, to a new anthropomorphism that views the animal as a separate and unknowable...
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