 Morgan describes his Canon by telling us the story of Tony, a fox-terrier pup who was able to open the gate from his garden and escape into the road by putting his head under the latch of the gate, lifting the latch and waiting for the gate to swing open. While it might look like Tony was smart—that he had a goal and knew how to achieve it by lifting the latch, Morgan invites us to consider other explanations. Perhaps Tony saw that the latch was liftable, and lifted it, without knowing the gate would open or wanting to get out. Perhaps Tony had associated the latch with getting out to the street, and wanted to get to the street, so he pushed against the latch without knowing how it worked. The worry is that, by thinking that Tony was a clever little dog, an observer is being anthropomorphic.