Sentences with phrase «attributing human characteristics»
Some people's feelings about the chickens that lay their eggs are based more on attributing human characteristics to chickens than on sound knowledge of chicken psychology.
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Barr's statement is a form of anthropomorphism, attributing human characteristics to the blind forces of nature with no logical justification.
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Even IF a first cause exists, you know nothing of its properties and attributes... and all of the human - like characteristics of it have been endowed upon it by man.
The researchers measured heritability — the amount of variation in a characteristic that can be attributed to genes — for a wide variety of human traits including blood pressure, the structure of the eyeball and mental or behavioral disorders.
Decay rates of human mRNAs: correlation with functional characteristics and sequence attributes.
In a recent book, «The Upside of Irrationality», he argues that the sites treat human beings as if they are goods that can be fully defined according to a set of standard attributes, in much the same way that, say, a digital camera can be described by the number of megapixels that it has and other characteristics.
Dr. Horowitz cautions against anthropomorphizing dogs or attributing human looks and characteristics to them.
Recent changes have been consistently attributed in large part to human factors across a very broad range of climate system characteristics.