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Selflike vs Shelflike - What's the difference?

selflike | shelflike |

As adjectives the difference between selflike and shelflike

is that selflike is exactly similar; corresponding while shelflike is resembling a shelf or some aspect of one.

selflike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exactly similar; corresponding.
  • Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
  • *2005 , Thomas Seifrid, The word made self :
  • But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]
  • *2007 , William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos :
  • The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.
  • Selfish; self-centered.
  • *2004 , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature :
  • Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]
  • *2007 , Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible :
  • The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.

    shelflike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a shelf or some aspect of one.
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