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What is an anthropomorphism?

What is an anthropomorphism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The attribution of human characteristics and behavior to which is not human. [from the mid-18th c.]
  2. (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings
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The equation of human and animal morality is, of course, anthropomorphism gone mad.
On a related note, the concept and practice of anthropomorphism is not adequate to the task.
Never mind all the infantile anthropomorphism about how animals feel that will be bleated at this week's hearings.
He knew well enough the hazard of excessive anthropomorphism.
And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
And our affection for animals, uninformed by experience of them, distorts our perceptions and inclines us toward anthropomorphism.

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