Talk:automorphism

1911 Britannica

I put a link to EB1911 on this page. It has a totally different psychological sense of automorphism as opposed to the usual mathematical sense. I found automorphic but not automorphism in Merriam-Webster, but neither seemed to have this sense, so maybe it is obsolete. Given my ignorance, I decided not to put the definition in the psychological sense on this page. Bob Burkhardt 13:42, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning this. I wouldn't make it a sense either, though it might be justifiable. I'd certainly wonder how widespread the usage was, even then. It is not a word that appears in the APA Dictionary of Psychology (2006). I'm not even sure the term as apparently used a bit in Jungian psychology meant what Spencer meant by it in that late 19th century. DCDuring TALK 14:50, 26 August 2009 (UTC)