...to the study of animal mind, is undoubtedly a safe doctrine. "In no case," says Morgan (27, p. 53), "may we interpret an action as the outcome of the...outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychical scale." The neglect of this principle leads to the psychologist's fallacy, to the common...

...in these emotions. Lloyd Morgan (39) says, relative to the study of animal psychology: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one that stands lower in the psychological scale." If we apply this dictum to the study of the outward...

...possible without leaving out any essential feature. As Prof. Lloyd Morgan has put it, " In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale " (1894, p. 53). The simplest description is not necessarily the true one, as we know in human...

...psychology might read after this fashion (with due apologies to the British scientist) : In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of an inferior psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which...

...dating from Scholastic philosophy, is known as "Lloyd Morgan's Canon." It reads as follows : "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." This principle is, as we have suggested, a special case of a general scientific doctrine known...

...Morgan's Canon, which is here quoted from his "Introduction to Comparative Psychology" (1894): "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty (mental process) if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower...

...Canon, which is here quoted from his "Introduction to Comparative Psychology" ( 1894) : "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty (mental process) if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower...

...Morgan's Canon"—a principle 'which avoids the anthropomorphic pitfall. His canon is: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." If Romanes had interpreted the observations of Preyer on the imprisoned starfish, he might...

...(1895) was an attack [831 against the prevailing anthropomorphism and runs as follows: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." The canon is merely the law of parsimony applied to animal psychology; it is an insistence...

...warned students against undue in- / tensity in their psychologizing. It admonishes that "in no •' case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." This principle is not without application to theories of motivation. 38. Random Movement The...