# F. Cuvier — What Is Property? character guide

> F. Cuvier in What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cuvier, Frederic Cuvier

**First appearance:** 0002-what-is-property

## Who they are

Naturalist referenced in a scientific analogy.

## In the story

### [§ 1 Of the Moral Sense in Man and the Animals](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/part-i-1)

Mentioned as the savant who distinguished instinct from intelligence, resolving the controversy about the line between human and animal intelligence.

### [§ 1](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/part-ii-1)

Cited for his distinction between instinct and intelligence in animals.

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