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Posted: 30 Nov 2023

Taken: 29 Aug 2011

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This tree was near the border of my neighnours. Hence my neighbour, senior lady told me she wants the branches of the tree to be chopped because they hinder the growth of tree in her property. I said OK, the tree was there even before we moved in there.

No neighbour also told me the tree men can chop off the tree and the charges will be just $ 800. Moreover she told me that the tree is a weed amongst the trees. !!!!

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 Dinesh
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ANTHROPOMORPHISM

There are two standard explanations of anthropomorphism: that it comforts us and that it consists in using our good knowledge of ourselves to account for what we know less well. Although each explanation has some truth, neither is sufficient. Comfort does not explain anthropomorphism well because much anthropomorphism is uncomfortable. Reliance on self-knowledge does not explain it well either, because our knowledge of ourselves is no more reliable than knowledge of what is not ourselves. - Page 6

Anthropomorphism in Philosophy and Science, shows that anthropomorphism occurs even among philosophers and scientists, although they are its most consistent critics. Scientists in particular try to avoid it, but they must make a constant effort. Its cause here appears the same as elsewhere: we strive to understand our world by pursuing important possibilities, and humanlike forms and behaviors are the most important ones we know. ~ Page 7 ~ Steward Gathrie ~ "Faces in the Cloud"
15 months ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
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Well captured.
15 months ago.

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