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empirical self
empirical self In this historical philosophical-psychological usage, the empirical self is the self as it appears within consciousness, especially as the inner self known in contrast with the outer world and as existing in time.
In this historical philosophical-psychological usage, the empirical self is the self as it appears within consciousness, especially as the inner self known in contrast with the outer world and as existing in time. The passage presents it as one side of the subject-object distinction that occurs within consciousness rather than between consciousness and something wholly outside it.