{
  "id": "personal.self",
  "term": "personal",
  "sense": "self",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "personal",
  "domain": "property",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "relates to a person as its own distinct entity apart from others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "distinct.attribute",
      "entities.object",
      "related.association"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a person is recognized as a persistent, individual participant in social contexts and differentiated from other entities based on distinct attributes, a sense of self emerges through the association of these distinctions with the person.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "individual identity",
      "self-other distinction",
      "personal continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2018, a judge ruled that an Amazon Echo's voice recordings were personal property in the State v. Dwyer case.",
      "domain": "law"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope assigns unique identifiers to each observed star in its personal data archive.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A child writes their name on a lunchbox to mark it as personal, distinguishing it from identical containers.",
      "domain": "everyday-life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "special.quality",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "personal"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to align components with the existing definition. No need to change the definition itself."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-personal.self"
}