DEEP ETHOLOGY - research methods
Sir Francis Bacon commented on homo additus naturae, ("man added to nature") : In his "Plan of the Great Instauration" Bacon comments on the impediments to ...[Anthropomorphism literally refers to generalizing various phenomena (including an animal's behavioral traits) from an area in which we feel confident about our understanding (our own human terms) to an area of relative ignorance. This also happens between various animals -- once I was troubled because "cold-blooded" reptiles (ectotherms, which obtain their body heat from external sources like the sun) were persistently viewed as "inferior" or "incompetent" in their temperature controls when compared to "warm blooded" animals (endotherms, which generate their own heat by metabolism). The view of reptiles was deeply misleading and I called it "endothermocentric." In fact, endothermy places an enormous energetic burden on an organism and can be a great disadvantage. Several endotherms have evolved ectothermic strategies to get through hard times.] Sir Francis Bacon commented on homo additus naturae, ("man added to nature"): In his "Plan of the Great Instauration" Bacon comments on the impediments to progress, one of the most prominent of which is that the mind "in forming its notions mixes up its own nature with the nature of things" (Greenberg, 1988:22).
Anthropomorphism
[名][U]神人同形［同性］論, 擬人観.
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