Idea or Concept
self
self [ self ]
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The "same" roleclass asserts an identity between playing and scoping entities: that they are in fact instances of the same entity and, in the case of discrepancies (e.g different DOB, gender), that one or both are in error. Usage: playing and scoping entities must have same classcode, but need not have identical attributes or values. Example: a provider registry maintains sets of conflicting demographic data for what is reported to be the same individual.NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The relationship that a person has with his or her self.NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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Self, the "I" as experienced by an individual. In modern psychology the notion of the self has replaced earlier conceptions of the soul. The concept of the self has been a central feature of many personality theories, including those of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Gordon W. Allport...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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