Morgan's canon

name

Etymology

Proposed by the 19th-century British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.

Definitions

  1. A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity…

    A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity should not be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of simpler developmental processes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Morgan's canon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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