Describing identity

How do we know who we are? The answer to this question, in part, depends on the language we use to name elements of personality - and in particular, the range of vocabulary we have. We can say of someone "she"s a very nice person" - but what does that really mean? That she"s warm...open...sympathetic...tolerant...cooperative...sensitive... or even boring-but-harmless?What these descriptive words do is identify, and so...

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