Morgan's canon

English

Etymology

Proposed by the 19th-century British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.

Proper noun

Morgan's canon

  1. (psychology, zoology) A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity should not be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of simpler developmental processes.
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