Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in a scientist's writing:
"In a helium atom, with two electrons, both the electrons will normally again be found in the permitted state of lowest energy. Since they are occupying the same state, those electrons will arrange their spins in opposite directions – one up and one down – as the exclusion principle describes…"
Alan Holden
Holden, A. (1965). The Nature of Solids. Columbia University Press.
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