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  • 21Self-help (law) — Self help, in the sense of a legal doctrine, refers to individuals implementation of their rights without resorting to legal writ or consultation of higher authority, as where a financial institution repossesses a car on which they hold both the… …

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  • 22Self-experimentation in medicine — Self experimentation refers to the very special case of single subject scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on her or himself. Usually this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or… …

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  • 23self-conscious — [self′kän′shəs] adj. 1. a) conscious or, esp., unduly conscious of oneself as an object of notice [a self conscious poet] b) awkward or embarrassed in the presence of others; ill at ease c) indicating embarrassment [a self conscious cough] 2.… …

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  • 24self-aware — self a•ware [[t]ˌsɛlf əˈwɛər[/t]] adj. cvb aware of one s own existence, personality, and nature • Etymology: 1875–80 self a•ware′ness, n …

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  • 25self-cre|at|ed — «SEHLF kree AY tihd», adjective. created, brought into existence, or constituted by oneself: »The particular, partly self created, character of Gibbon s mind... (R. H. Hutton) …

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  • 26self-rep|li|ca|tion — «SEHLF REHP luh KAY shuhn», noun. replication of itself or by itself: »These organisms [pleuropneumonia like organisms] which are even smaller than some viruses, are thought to possess only the minimum number of structures needed for self… …

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  • 27self-ex|ist|ent — «SEHLF ehg ZIHS tuhnt», adjective. 1. existing independently of any other cause. 2. having an independent existence …

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  • 28Existence (Philosophy of) 1 — Philosophy of existence 1 Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux At the very outset and up to the end, the long philosophical journey of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) remained oriented by a single question, the question of Being, the Seinsfrage. This does… …

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  • 29Existence (Philosophy of) 2 — Philosophy of existence 2 Sartre Thomas R.Flynn Born 21 June 1905, in Thiviers (Dordogne), Jean Paul Sartre was raised in the Parisian home of his widowed mother’s parents. After his mother’s remarriage, he spent several years with her and his… …

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  • 30Existence (Philosophy of) 3 — Philosophy of existence 3 Merleau Ponty Bernard Cullen à Henri Godin LIFE AND WORKS Maurice Merleau Ponty was born on 14 March 1908 into a petty bourgeois Catholic family in Rochefort sur Mer on the west coast of France. When he died suddenly, at …

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