"In 1974, this guy Brandon Carter came up with what he called the anthropic principle," Morris continues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs] Reference

A fourth and final concern is what we might call the anthropic objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Material Constitution] Reference

This distinction may seem puzzling, and I must explain it further, using the so-called anthropic principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Delusion]

This theory is based on the so-called anthropic principle, which comes in two varieties, the weak and the strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2)] Reference

The idea that the universe was made just for us â "known as the anthropic principle â" debuted in 1973 when Brandon Carter.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

An interesting twist on this logic, known as the anthropic principle, was made by John Barrow, a physicist at Sussex University in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right-Winger Goes To War] Reference

"I know what 'anthropic' means," said Capuano with a touch of defensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

It turns out that the very age and vastness of the universe may have an "anthropic" significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved] Reference

Or wait, that’s called the anthropic principle, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

"anthropic" component: we live in a very rare environment where the ordinary laws are such that life can exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

I agree, anthropic arguments are very uninteresting.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Here Boltzmann makes an unambiguously anthropic move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boltzmann’s Anthropic Brain] Reference

The weak anthropic principle is not very controversial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why God Did Not Create the Universe] Reference

That principle is called the "weak" anthropic principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why God Did Not Create the Universe] Reference

The weak anthropic principle (WAP) is really a sort of question.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

But this isn't my understanding of the true "anthropic principle".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Horton: The eight-legged god] Reference

Almost entirely because it greatly added to the anthropic arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The anthropic argument was neatly summed up by the late Douglas Adams.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Again, the anthropic principle delivers its devastatingly neat solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference

The anthropic principle is usually applied not to planets but to universes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference

So, it seems likely that anthropic selection plays some role even for Yukawas.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Finally, you do in fact underappreciate the raw power of the anthropic argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This ecoregion has mostly been replaced by anthropic vegetation or converted to savanna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban dry forests] Reference

After we start to use the oil as a primary energy source, the anthropic activity becomes clear.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Climate Change" or "Global Warming"?] Reference

Hawking and Mlodinow accept the strong anthropic principle but only in the context of the multiverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2)] Reference

Currently, most of these forests have been replaced by anthropic vegetation or changed into savannas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba] Reference

So much must have been in place before the anthropic fine-tuning of our universe, including the fine-tuner.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

These anthropic pressures can also lead to an increase in chemical and microbiological pollution of lagoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal lagoon] Reference

And - this is where the famous anthropic principle comes in - Earth has to be one of them, because here we are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference

We explain our existence by a combination of the anthropic principle and Darwin's principle of natural selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference

It's not especially idiosyncratic; many theorists hold similar views of the multiverse and the anthropic principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Why?' Questions, Chapter and Multiverse] Reference

The different supersymmetry models overcome this particular issue, but then present other anthropic issues of their own. davidrev.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This so-called "anthropic principle" rests upon an irrefutable basis: Nobody can observe anything that the mind isn't set up for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Are We the Masters of Time?] Reference

And, with anthropic hindsight, we obviously have to be sitting in a member of that minority, because, well, here we are, aren't we?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference

For example, the sizeable set of anthropic coincidences in the universe alone are highly, in fact are profoundly indicative in this vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference