Timeline for Is there a term for ascribing acts of the human mind to non-human objects, and when is it appropriate to do this?
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 9:25 | comment | added | Fattie | This answer, and comment, utterly and fully addresses this confusing, over-long question. I particularly admire the conciseness of the answer and comment here. | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 6:35 | comment | added | Sundar R | And in fact, in common usage, it's almost always used in the psychological sense: we talk about anthropomorphising laptops and programmed software and even the climate around us, and none of those are meant In the sense of ascribing the human physique to them. Funnily enough, the word's components taken literally are anthropo: "humanlike", and morphize: "(physical) shaping" - but those origins don't define their actual meaning in practice. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 16:11 | history | answered | Channel Islander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |