: dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David DeLaney)
: Might "anthropomorphism" be a slightly better descriptive term for that
part
: then?
Maybe... at the very least, a closely related notion. One is, there's
a hidden agent causing what you see. The other is, there's an agent
you see, and it has human motives, intentions, capabilities, etc.
Both "magical" ways of thinking about things, if taken seriously.
Though anthropomorphism is often adopted as a convenient shorthand,
ie, "the species evolved in order to do X", and the such, and in
such cases, is only metaphorical; not meant to say that a "species"
has motives and intentions.
[...] there's a little green man in my head.
He said, you're not going crazy, you're just a bit sad
'cause there's a man in you, knawing you, tearing you, into two.
--- "Destroyer", the Kinks
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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