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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

subpersonal en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Middle English personal English personal English subpersonal From sub- + personal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to factors underlying the personal level of moral explanation, such as biological or chemical factors
    • So there remains the problem of linking the intended whole-person disposition to a subpersonal disposition of a rather different kind. 2007 September 29, Toby Handfield, Alexander Bird, “Dispositions, rules, and finks”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI: