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nonhuman

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1. nonhuman - Noun

2. nonhuman - Adjective

Meaning

not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings

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Capital is defined as the sum total of nonhuman assets that can be owned and exchanged on some market. Thomas Piketty

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power. Richard Rorty

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. António Damásio

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. J. M. Coetzee

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect. Joan Dunayer

Harry Harlow and his colleagues go on torturing their nonhuman primates decade after decade, invariably proving what we all knew in advance: that social creatures can be destroyed by destroying their social ties. Harry Harlow

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