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    It is not the case that Anthropectomy and anthropomorphism are equally serious errors

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    • 1.Asymmetric epistemic risks justify asymmetric caution: anthropomorphism generates unfalsifiable research programs while anthropectomy remains empirically correctable.
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    • 2.Morgan's Canon, as a methodological principle, reflects Occam's Razor—preferring simpler explanations is epistemically rational, not merely conventional.
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    • 3.A systematic bias toward over-attribution corrupts the evidential base of comparative psychology more severely than conservative under-attribution does.
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    • 1.Anthropomorphism uniquely distorts moral and legal frameworks by triggering unwarranted obligations, whereas anthropectomy produces only epistemic errors with narrower downstream consequences.
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    • 2.Dennett's intentional stance analysis shows that projecting mentalistic language onto systems creates self-reinforcing interpretive loops that anthropectomy does not produce.
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    • 1.Anthropectomy is the mistake of denying that an animal has a certain characteristically human capacity when in fact the animal does have that capacity
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    • 2.Both anthropomorphism and anthropectomy amount to a false depiction of how the world actually is
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    • 3.If two errors are both false depictions of reality, there is no reason to fear one more than the other
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