"empirical ego" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: empirical egos [plural]
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  1. (philosophy, phenomenology) In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject. Categories (topical): Philosophy

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