 In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale, (p.  Educational Review - Página 297editado por - 1916Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Harry Porter Weld - 1928 - 324 páginas
...Lloyd Morgan's Canon, or as Morgan's Canon of Interpretation, and it runs as follows : " In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands 203 lower in the psychological scale." In a subsequent formulation he substituted ' psychical process... | |
 | 1928 - 844 páginas
...linguistic data. We shall take up these two in turn. Lloyd Morgan's canon 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 ".22 The canon is not of course a final or absolute guiding principle. It is rather a pragmatic... | |
 | Bernard Weiner - 1992 - 410 páginas
...metaphor were in part guided by Morgan's Canon: "In no case is an animal activity to be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty if it can be fairly interpreted as the outcome of an exercise which stands lower on the psychological scale" (Morgan,... | |
 | Jeannette P. Ward, William D. Hopkins - 1993 - 372 páginas
...respects while at the same time strikingly different. We must heed Lloyd Morgan's canon: "in no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in psychological scale." (cited in Boring, 1950, p. 474). Note, however, that this canon is a two-edged... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 páginas
...Comparative Psychology (1894).9 It was in his work that Morgan developed his famous canon: In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychic faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower... | |
 | Mitchell G. Ash - 1998 - 532 páginas
...imitation of human beings. The third applied the principle enunciated by Conwy Lloyd Morgan: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychological faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands... | |
 | Clotilde Pontecorvo - 1996 - 390 páginas
...the "Morgan canon" by which, whenever possible, higher mental processes have to be interpreted "as an outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Lloyd Morgan, 1894). British empiricism provided the basis for this reductionism, because on... | |
 | Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff - 1999 - 236 páginas
...contemporary of Romanes who also was very interested in animal minds, is well known for his canon: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Lloyd Morgan 1894, p. 53). Although Lloyd Morgan did not give much credence to anecdote, it... | |
 | Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach - 1997 - 314 páginas
...behavior in terms of cognitive constructs, it is important to recall C. Lloyd Morgans canon: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Morgan, 1894/1977, p. 53). Summary It has been the purpose of this chapter to point out what... | |
 | Jaan Valsiner - 1997 - 402 páginas
...evaluation of differences of levels led C. Lloyd Morgan to the formulation of his famous canon: In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale. (Morgan, 1894, p. 53) Morgan's law of parsimony has often been used as a legitimization for... | |
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