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The Nature of Personality Theory

Psychological Reports, 1970
The historical antecedents and present status of personality theories are outlined, together with future trends. The impact of various factors, including scientific methodology and the growing existential movement, are discussed. That the very nature of personality seems to preclude or make intractable its study is the central theme.
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Nature, culture, and persons

Theory and Decision, 1981
One cannot, pursuing in a disciplined way any aspect of the comparison of cultures, fail to sense a certain uneasiness about the prospects and appeal of the unity of science. In the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, the program of unity has been almost hopelessly linked with the fortunes of a defeated positivism and the striking lack of success ...
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The personal nature of health

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2009
"Every man has his particular way of being in good health" - Emanuel Kant. Emanuel Kant's description of health stands in stark contrast to accepted definitions of health. For example, the WHO defines ‘health’ as ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.
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The Nature of Personality

2004
While there are many definitions of personality existing, little will be lost if, for the present, we limit ourselves to its most general and abstract meaning: Personality is an hypothetical construct referring to an organized system of reaction tendencies that mediates relations between the person and his/her environment, rendering the person’s ...
Frederick R. Hine   +4 more
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Personalized Natural Language Understanding

Interspeech 2016, 2016
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the critical components of dialog systems. Its aim is to extract semantic meaning from typed text input or the spoken text coming out of the speech recognizer. Traditionally, NLU systems are built in a user-independent fashion, where the system behavior does not adapt to the user.
Xiaohu Liu   +4 more
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Natural Language Person Retrieval

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017
Following the recent progress in image classification and image captioning using deep learning, we developed a novel person retrieval system using natural language, which to our knowledge is first of its kind. Our system employs a state-of-the-art deep learning based natural language object retrieval framework to detect and retrieve ...
Tao Zhou, Jie Yu
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Personality theory and the nature of human nature

Personality and Individual Differences, 2020
Abstract Personality theory concerns the nature of human nature and is the foundation for any discipline based on assumptions about human motivation (e.g., Anthropology, Economics, Political Science). Despite its central importance, personality theory has been marginalized in modern psychology.
Robert Hogan, Ryne A. Sherman
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On the Nature of Persons; Persons as Constituted Events

Metaphysica, 2021
Abstract The diachronic question of persons deals with personal identity over time: “In virtue of what conditions is a person, P 1 , at t 1 , the same person, P
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Persons by Nature and Persons by Extension

1996
The discussion in the previous chapter shows that it is not necessary that all individuals be rational and behave morally in order to be given full moral consideration and be treated as persons. But it is those characteristics that determine the core group of persons: those who might be called natural persons ...
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The Nature of Persons

1998
We now come to the problem of what Reid’s view of the nature of the person is. The problem is presented in section I and arises from Reid’s apparent acceptance of the view that persons both have minds and have bodily characteristics, coupled with his statement that a person is indivisible.
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