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Lloyd Morgan's canon Psychol.|lɔɪd ˈmɔːgənz ˈkænən|
[f. the name of Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852–1936), British psychologist.]
(See quot. 1937.)
[1894C. L. Morgan Introd. Compar. Psychol. iii. 53 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.] 1937Discovery May 162/1 No action must be interpreted as a higher psychological process if it can be interpreted as one lower in the scale. This is known as ‘the Lloyd Morgan canon’. 1964A. Koestler in Listener 14 May 786/2 A principle which became a kind of eleventh commandment for psychologists, known as ‘Lloyd Morgan's canon’. 1968E. Boring in Internat. Encycl. Social Sciences X. 495/2 He [sc. Lloyd Morgan] is best known for what has come to be called Lloyd Morgan's canon, which demands parsimony in the inference of an animal's place on the scale of mind from its behavior. |