Dictionary
anthropic
/anˈTHräpik/
adjective
1.
philosophy & cosmology
involving or concerning the existence of human life, especially as a constraint on theories of the universe.
“anthropic reasoning is only interesting in a scientific sense if it can help us understand how the universe came to be the way it is”
2.
(typically of environmental change) caused by human beings; anthropogenic.
“anthropic climate change”
Origin
early 19th century (in the sense ‘relating to human beings’): from Greek anthrōpikos, from anthrōpos ‘human being.’ The press takes its name from this root — the belief that human authorship remains the primary fact of any universe worth understanding.
