personal identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersonalandidentity
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personal
adjective
uk/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus,personalidentityis biological continuity.
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If the consumer thinks of herself as a unique individual, she is not going to view a standardised song as important to herpersonalidentity.
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Particular attention is paid to the over-identification of social actors with their personae, such that they mistake the mask for genuinepersonalidentity.
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Here again there is some play with the notion ofpersonalidentity.
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These involvepersonalidentity, embodiment, the relationship between the individual and the community, and death.
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Some of the extreme examples of thought experiments that have come into vogue inpersonalidentitytheory have even generated criticism within academic philosophy.
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The first is the self ofpersonalidentityin which one's sense of personal agency supports continuity of purpose and meaning in life.
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After all, we know now thatpersonalidentityis itself merely one kind of relatedness among many.
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The bundle theory ofpersonalidentityprovides the ontological side of the argument.
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Personalidentitythrough time is not the identity of thought and perception, but the identity of the subject that thinks and perceives.
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This active agency is the source of object relations that define herpersonalidentity, her identity as a desiring self.
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There is disorientation particularly for time, but often also for place, but never forpersonalidentity.
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Unlikepersonalidentity, egoistic concern can be a matter of degree and is thus affected by the degree of psychological unity of the individual.
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This proposal may have its own problems, perhaps particularly regardingpersonalidentity.
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In turn, such persons may come to see themselves as 'failed citizens ' and struggle with achieving a meaningfulpersonalidentity.
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One might object that legalistic considerations justify the requirement ofpersonalidentity.
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Some fascinating findings were also highlighted in respect of thepersonalidentityconferred by home ownership.
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Decline became, she argues, much more central topersonalidentity.
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Like keeping a diary, writing a long personal letter bestowed apersonalidentitythat was separate from the official norms.
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And the main outcome of linguistic literacy is both a more articulatedpersonalidentityand an increased capacity to use language under diverse circumstances.
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