anthropomorphisms

It had better also be noted that we have thus far had two so-called anthropomorphisms: "God said" (v. 3) and "God saw" (v. 4).

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Yet, on the other hand, it is clear that the tendency to move from tropes to systems of interpretation such as anthropomorphisms is built into the very notion of trope.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

Or would "anthropomorphisms" be the appropriate term for all?

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

"anthropomorphisms," instances in which God is referred to as if He were a man.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.

CHAPTER IX 2010

What it's looking at and what we're seeing, naming and embellishing with our own uniquely human anthropomorphisms, are a universe apart, no matter how many scientific tags and labels we might impose.

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It may seem a benign slip from sad eyes to depression, but anthropomorphisms often slide from benign to harmful.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Yet without anthropomorphisms we would seem to have little vocabulary with which to describe their perceived experience.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Worse still, dog owners seemed to have already covered the territory of theorizing about the dog mind, and their theories were generated from anecdotes and misapplied anthropomorphisms.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

For that purpose, anthropomorphisms fail to help us incorporate those animals into our homes, and have the smoothest, fullest relationships with them.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009