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  2. Empathy - Wikipedia

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    Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. [1] [2] [3] There are more (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding ...

  3. Identity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    For other uses of "Identity", see Identity (disambiguation). In metaphysics, identity (from Latin: identitas, " sameness ") is the relation each thing bears only to itself. [1] [2] The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their properties, are they one and ...

  4. Gender empathy gap - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Gender empathy gap. A gender empathy gap, sometimes referred to as an gender empathy bias, is a breakdown or reduction in empathy (the ability to recognize, understand, and share another's thoughts and feelings) where it might otherwise be expected to occur. Empathy gaps may occur due to a failure in the process of empathizing based ...

  5. Face-to-face (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Face-to-face (philosophy) The face-to-face relation ( French: rapport de face à face) is a concept in the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas ' thought on human sociality. It means that, ethically, people are responsible to one-another in the face-to-face encounter. Specifically, Lévinas says that the human face "orders and ordains" us.

  6. Empathic accuracy - Wikipedia

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    Empathic accuracy. In psychology, empathic accuracy is a measure of how accurately one person can infer the thoughts and feelings of another person. The term was introduced in 1988, in conjunction with the term "empathic inference," by psychologists William Ickes and William Tooke. [1] Since then research on empathic accuracy has explored its ...

  7. Empathic concern - Wikipedia

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    Empathic concern refers to other-oriented emotions elicited by, and congruent with the perceived welfare of, someone in need. [1] These other-oriented emotions include feelings of tenderness, sympathy, compassion and soft-heartedness. Empathic concern is often confused with empathy. To empathize is to respond to another's perceived emotional ...

  8. Emphatic consonant - Wikipedia

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    In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents. In specific Semitic languages , the members of this series may be realized as uvularized or pharyngealized , velarized , ejective , or plain voiced or voiceless consonants .

  9. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy. [1]