Canny OR Uncanny

 

*Canny* means shrewd, prudent, clever, astute, thrifty. The word canny is originally Scottish, and is derived from the word 'can' in the sense of knowing. Related words are cannier, canniest, cannily, canniness. *Uncanny* describes something that is mysterious, eerie, something hard to explain or something that is outside of one's understanding. Canny is a related term of uncanny. As adjectives the difference between canny and uncanny is that *canny* is careful, prudent, cautious while *uncanny* is strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird. Main Difference
The main difference between Canny and Uncanny is that the Canny is a family name and Uncanny is a psychological experience of something as strangely familiar, rather than simply mysterious.

*Canny*

Canny is the surname of:

John Canny, American computer scientist, namesake of the Canny edge detector

Nicholas Canny (born 1944), Irish historian

Paddy Canny (1919–2008), Irish fiddler

Steven Canny (born 1969), English playwright and BBC executive producer

*Uncanny*
The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as strangely familiar, rather than simply mysterious. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context.The concept of the uncanny was perhaps first fixed by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks. For Freud, the uncanny locates the strangeness in the ordinary. Expanding on the idea, psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan wrote that the uncanny places us "in the field where we do not know how to distinguish bad and good, pleasure from displeasure", resulting in an irreducible anxiety that gestures to the Real. The concept has since been taken up by a variety of subsequent thinkers and theorists such as Roboticist Masahiro Mori's "uncanny valley" hypothesis and Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection.

Canny (adjective)
Careful, prudent, cautious.

"The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions."

Canny (adjective)
Knowing, shrewd, astute.

"The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted."

Canny (adjective)
Frugal, thrifty.

"canny investments"

"See frugal"

Canny (adjective)
Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with.

"She's a canny lass hor like!"

Canny (adjective)
Gentle, quiet, steady.

"a canny horse; be canny with this letter"

Canny (adverb)
Very, considerably; quite, rather.

"That's a canny big horse, man!"

"a canny long journey; canny near home"

Canny (adverb)
Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

"he sits very canny; drive canny"

Uncanny (adjective)
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.

"He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor."

Uncanny (adjective)
Careless.

Uncanny (noun)
Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").

Canny (adjective)
having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters

"canny investors will switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal"

Canny (adjective)
pleasant; nice

"she's a canny lass"

Uncanny (adjective)
strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

"an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"

Canny (adjective)
Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.

Canny (adjective)
Skillful; knowing; capable.

Canny (adjective)
Cautious; prudent; safe..

Canny (adjective)
Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle.

Canny (adjective)
Reputed to have magical powers.

Uncanny (adjective)
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.

Canny (adjective)
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;

"a cagey lawyer"

"too clever to be sound"

Uncanny (adjective)
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

"an eldritch screech"

"the three weird sisters"

"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"

"an unearthly light"

"he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"

Uncanny (adjective)
beyond what is natural;

"his uncanny sense of direction"

The Nuremberg Code (1947) 

1. Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity. 

2. The experiment should aim at positive results for society that cannot be procured in some other way. 

3. It should be based on previous knowledge (e.g., an expectation derived from animal experiments) that justifies the experiment. 

4. The experiment should be set up in a way that avoids unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injuries. 

5. It should not be conducted when there is any reason to believe that it implies a risk of death or disabling injury. 

6. The risks of the experiment should be in proportion to (that is, not exceed) the expected humanitarian benefits. 

7. Preparations and facilities must be provided that adequately protect the subjects against the experiment's risks. 

8. The staff who conduct or take part in the experiment must be fully trained and scientifically qualified. 

9. The human subjects must be free to immediately quit the experiment at any point when they feel physically or mentally unable to go on. 

10. Likewise, the medical staff must stop the experiment at any point when they observe that continuation would be dangerous.

纽伦堡法典 (1947) 

1. 要求具有完全法律能力的人类受试者自愿、知情、理解同意。  

2. 实验应以其他方式无法获得的社会积极成果为目标。  

3. 它应该基于证明实验合理的先前知识（例如，来自动物实验的预期）。  

4. 实验的设置应避免不必要的身心痛苦和伤害。  

5. 当有任何理由相信它意味着死亡或致残的风险时，不应进行。  

6. 实验的风险应与预期的人道主义利益成比例（即不超过）。  

7. 必须提供充分保护受试者免受实验风险的准备和设施。  

8. 进行或参与实验的人员必须经过充分培训并具有科学资格。  

9. 人类受试者在感到身体或精神上无法继续时，必须可以随时立即退出实验。  

10. 同样，当医务人员观察到继续进行有危险时，必须随时停止实验。 

The Nuremberg Code drafted at the end of the Doctor's trial in Nuremberg 1947 has been hailed as a landmark document in medical and research ethics. Close examination of this code reveals that it was based on the Guidelines for Human Experimentation of 1931. The resemblance between these documents is uncanny.