anthropomorphic

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The premise of "Article of Faith" begs comparison with a whole raft of Asimov robot shorts of a roughly similar ilk, and Resnick's construction of the robot character -- anthropomorphic, human-named, soft-spoken, deferential but insistent on puzzling out the logical inconsistencies in the narrator's theology -- is also heavily reminiscent of Asimov's robots.

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  1. Relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism: as, anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity. We everywhere see fading away the anthropomorphic conception of the Unknown Cause. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 111. The curiously anthropomorphic idea of stones being husbands and wives, and even having children, is familiar to the Fijians as it is to the Peruvians and the Lapps. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 149.
  2. Resembling man; approaching man in type; anthropoid: as, anthropomorphic apes.

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  • And had most of society's vital services not been fully cybernetically maintained (Li'l Bulb's cousins, anthropomorphic or not, had no thoughts they were ashamed of), complete collapse of society would have swiftly followed this mass abandonment of the workplace. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • In it we watch the shape of our recent history repeated, and whenever the thought nags that the Spiders are too anthropomorphic -- not alien enough -- Vinge reminds us that the narrative of the Spiders is the product of a human translator grasping to convey the essence of the tale through images a human mind would find comprehensible. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • "They are anthropomorphic, they have human and animal elements combined in the figures," she said. —  Rockford Register Star Home RSS
  • Eventually all the leading agencies of nature are personified in anthropic form, and retain the human attributes of caprice, love, and hate which are found in the minds of the believers Psychotheism is born of physitheism as the anthropomorphic element in the concept of natural agency gradually fades; but since none of the aborigines of the United States had passed into the higher stage, the mode of transition does not require consideration It is to be borne in mind that throughout the course of development of belief, from the beginning of hecastotheism into the borderland of psychotheism, the dominant characteristic is the vague notion of mystery. —  The Siouan Indians
  • [527] God is all light, all understanding, all Logos, all active spirit;[528] everything anthropopathic and anthropomorphic is to be conceived as incompatible with his nature. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
 

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