单词 | self-identity |
释义 | self-identityn. 1. The set of qualities or characteristics that give a person his or her own individuality, esp. in relation to social or cultural context; the perception or recognition of these qualities or characteristics. ΚΠ 1794 E. Williams Poems II. 197 These renovations will not..occasion a suspension of memory and consciousness of self-identity. 1848 Calcutta Rev. 10 35 There can be no self-identity without memory, and we shall not only know ourselves, but be known to others. a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. xv. 161 That separate, solitary self-identity, which makes each human spirit..the bearer of its own burden. 1982 E. Kallen Ethnicity & Human Rights Canada Introd. 7 As they [sc. human beings] grow up, their ethnocultural identity forms an integral component of their self-identity. 2004 Church Times 21 May 4/2 Members of minority faith groups feel their beliefs are more fundamental to their sense of self-identity than many white Christians do. 2. Philosophy. The fact or quality of having a consistent essential or intrinsic identity, esp. despite apparent or external change. Cf. self-identical adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] oneness?c1225 identity1545 indifferency1569 selfsameness1577 sameness1581 said1623 homogeneity1625 indistinction1644 indifference1656 sameliness1662 identicalness1677 undistinguishableness1727 indistinguishableness1731 self-identity1866 dittoship1869 identicality1875 indistinguishability1885 sameyness1977 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [noun] > identity self-identity1866 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 229 Emotion and change..are incompatible with immutable self-identity. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xv. 544 Consciousness may pass through many states without losing its self-identity. 1917 D. H. Parker Self & Nature ii. 30 If by sameness of form or quality be meant similarity, then this theory..is a covert denial of self identity. 1952 R. W. Church Anal. Resemblance viii. 86 To say that A is to any degree identical with anything other than A would be to contradict the absolute self identity of A. 2002 P. Cripps tr. V. Songe-Møller Philos. without Women Introd. p. xiii Unity and self-identity were crucial not only to Parmenides, but also to Plato and Aristotle, as preconditions of unchanging..divine existence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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