anthropomorphic

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What it's looking at and what we're seeing, naming and embellishing with our own uniquely human anthropomorphisms, are a universe apart, no matter how many scientific tags and labels we might impose.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

The attempts to discover it, made by Theology and Metaphysics, have been nothing more than elaborate anthropomorphisms, in which men gave to the unknown and unknowable reality, a form which was borrowed from their own.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

Is there even a single scientific description conceivable without its being full of anthropomorphisms?

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.

It became more spiritual; anthropomorphisms were removed, and the transcendence of God above the world was more strictly maintained.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

Through all anthropomorphisms of thought and language this line of light still passed inviolate and inviolable.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green