...l'humain se situe au sommet et possède les propriétés mentales les plus perfectionnées. « In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychologica! taculty, if it can be interpretec! as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands...

...analytical approach to psychological phenomena is nicely summarized in Morgan's canon: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological...

...Morgan introduced the principle widely used and known today as Morgan's canon. It states: In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower on the psychological scale. Morgan's canon has been associated traditionally with Occam's razor, from...

...of the potential alternatives. Parsimony is the canon attributed to Morgan (1903: 53), 'In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the psychological scale'. It is, for example, simpler, and usually safer,...

...was ushered in by the British scientist C. Lloyd Morgan's 1894 decree on animal behavior: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the psychological scale."'3 However, as was the case with Descartes so many...

...animals. He summarized his views in his famous Canon: "In no case may we interpret an action as an outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." Thus, we should not assume that nonhuman animal...

...alternative to the minimalist principle implied in Lloyd Morgan's canon, which says that in no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of a lower one (quoted in Walker 1985:...

...attributions to nonhuman animals. Even Lloyd Morgan, mainly remembered 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" (Morgan l894, p. 53) — accepted the DarwinRomanes view of the continuity of mental states....

...psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan proposed the following rule for those who study animal behavior: "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 became known as Morgans canon. It was based on the widely held principle of parsimony,...

...should be interpreted in terms of a very conservative principle known as 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 the psychical scale." There are obvious problems with this formulation. What is a "faculty"? What makes...