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单词 anthropism
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anthropismn.

Brit. /ˈanθrəpɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈænθrəˌpɪz(ə)m/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ἄνθρωπος , -ism suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (see anthropo- comb. form) + -ism suffix. Compare ancient Greek ανθρωπισμός humanity. In sense 2 after anthropic adj. With sense 3 compare earlier anthropopathy n.
1. With reference to Christ: assumption of or existence in human form; incarnation. Obsolete. rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > incarnation
fleshc1000
incarnation1297
carnationc1410
enfleshing1548
humanationa1631
substantiationa1631
anthropism1710
1710 D. Whitby Addit. Annot. New Test. (2 Tim. i. 8) 125/2 Simon Magus..denied that Christ had taken Flesh upon him, saying, that his Incarnation, or Anthropism, was only in Appearance.
2.
a. The belief or theory that humanity is the central or most important element of existence or of the universe; anthropocentrism.
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the world > people > anthropocentrism > [noun] > anthropocentrism
anthropism1842
anthropinism1880
anthropocentricism1883
anthropocentricity1888
anthropocentrism1897
anthropocentrality1934
1842 Brit. Mag. Feb. 166 A contention of man as ‘man’ with God; which might be called (by analogy with deism, atheism, &c.) ‘anthropism’, and its votaries ‘anthropists’, as we say deists, atheists, &c.
1900 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Riddle of Universe i. 11 Anthropism..opposes the human organism to the whole of the rest of nature, and represents it to be the preordained end of the organic creation, an entity essentially distinct from it, a godlike being.
1951 C. Sherrington Man on his Nature (ed. 2) xi. 249 To a human spectator..animal creation has its raison d'être as a mechanism for evolving mind... But in that he may be suffering from ‘anthropism’. The human mind is not a goal.
1994 R. Bhaskar Plato Etc. iii. 50 It might be thought that Heidegger escapes my charge of anthropism. But for the early Heidegger being was essentially mediated by..human being, and for the later..was disclosed by its human traces or effects.
2007 M. Hartwig Dict. Crit. Reason 40 Rejecting anthropism..carries through the Copernican revolution—which demonstrates that the universe does not revolve around humans—in philosophy.
b. In physics, philosophy, and cosmology: (support for) the principle or theory that the nature of the universe must be compatible with the existence of intelligent life, esp. human life; advocacy or expression of (a version of) the anthropic principle. See anthropic principle n. at anthropic adj. Compounds.
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the world > matter > physics > [noun] > specific concepts or principles of > theoretical principle deduced from fact > specific
principle1770
Archimedes' law1874
conservation law1900
Archimedean property1908
field law1916
square law1921
anthropism1987
1987 Mind 96 340 Carter [is] not only the inventor of the anthropic principle but also quite the most careful philosopher of anthropism.
1992 New Statesman & Society 1 May 32/1 The key is the ‘anthropic principle’... In its most overweening forms, anthropism seems to be on the verge of substituting Man for God.
2011 R. Mackay tr. Q. Meillassoux in L. Bryant et al. Speculative Turn xv. 233 The thesis of anthropism—more precisely, of what is known as the Strong Anthropic Principle.
3. The attribution of human form, feelings, language, etc., to something other than a human being; an instance of this; anthropomorphism, anthropopathy. Now rare.
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the world > people > anthropocentrism > [noun] > anthropomorphism
anthropomorphism1845
anthropism1850
anthropomorphization1872
anthropopsychism1884
1850 R. W. Mackay Progress of Intellect I. iii. 355 The anthropism of the poets was but the unwitting commencement of a system..of treating ideas as facts or persons.
1866 J. Quarry Genesis & its Authorship i. 104 The Creator appears..in fashion as a man... This divine anthropism, as a general characteristic, pervades the entire of the second account of creation.
1954 Q. Rev. Biol. 29 309/1 This region [of the petri dish] the animals seemed to be ‘avoiding’—if I may be pardoned an anthropism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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