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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science of the laws which govern human action.

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  • All the encomiums bestowed on the ideal of humanity in its moral perfection can lose nothing of their practical reality by the examples of what men now are, have been, or will probably be hereafter; anthropology which proceeds from mere empirical knowledge cannot impair anthroponomy which is erected by the unconditionally legislating reason; and although virtue may now and then be called meritorious (in relation to men, not to the law), and be worthy of reward, yet in itself, as it is its own end, so also it must be regarded as its own reward.

    The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics Immanuel Kant 1764

  • He thought that the new look in psychol - ogy deserved a new name and attempted, without any success, to substitute “anthroponomy” for “psychol - ogy.”

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

  • The scientific theory of Conduct results from analysis of the Word, and constitutes anthroponomy

    A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel Francis Ellingwood Abbot 1869

  • When we learn to think with both left and right brains and teach whole brain academics in both arts and sciences in relation to anthroponomy we will then begin making life right for all beings.

    UFO and Paranormal News 2009

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