Noun

The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

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Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

Noun

(en-noun)

The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

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*:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

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(lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).