NOUN
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the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
you can lose your identity when you join the army
How To Use personal identity In A Sentence
- General Philosophy covers such topics as mind and body, theory of knowledge, causation and personal identity.
- As I note in the comments, I actually think commissurotomy cases are one more evidence that personal identity is not reducible to psychological continuity: people whose hemispheres have been split act almost exactly like you do. Split Something-or-Other
- On the floor he laid a bed of newspaper to represent both the floor of a birdcage and the influence of media on cultural and personal identity.
- The cloned child would have her uniquely individuating consciousness that would be constitutive of her personal identity.
- It is a compelling study of personal identity.
- It underlies certain intuitions that we have about causality, morality, and personal identity.
- The notion that language equals nationality and therefore personal identity is foolish.
- If I were to discover that's what was happening metaphysically and the soul view was the true theory of personal identity, I'd say,Huh!
- Sociologists talk about 'deindividuation', the loss of self-awareness and personal identity that happens to someone subsumed in a crowd. Times, Sunday Times
- Self-fulfillment and even the working out of personal identity and a sense of orientation in the world depend upon a communal enterprise.
