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Anthropomorphism
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What began, centuries ago, as a healthy safeguard against projection had become an insidious contributor to human exceptionalism, the belief that nothing else on Earth was like us in any way.
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― Playground
― Playground
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But you can reassure children; you can tell them what's happening or going to happen. Can you get such reassurance across to a cat? I suppose it is that sort of anthropomorphism that bugs the hell out of researchers whose job is to experiment on nonhuman animals. If they permit themselves such a comparison, they might not sleep well at night.
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― Do Cats Think?: Notes of a Cat-Watcher
― Do Cats Think?: Notes of a Cat-Watcher
