Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

empirical ego

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: em-pir-i-cal ego
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"When he debates, Shall I commit this crime? choose that profession? accept that office, or marry this fortune?—his choice really lies between one of several equally possible future Selves. What his entire empirical Ego shall become, is fixed by the conduct of this moment."
"The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality."

Inflected Forms

empirical egos (plural)

Questions

What does empirical ego mean?: 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.

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