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  2. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...

  3. Right of self-defense - Wikipedia

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    The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for people to use reasonable or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one's own life (self-defense) or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of ...

  4. Category:Alter egos - Wikipedia

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    An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical.

  5. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    A norm gives a person a rule of thumb for how they should behave. However, a rational person acts according to the rule only if it is beneficial for them. The situation can be described as follows. A norm gives an expectation of how other people act in a given situation (macro). A person acts optimally given the expectation (micro).

  6. Nafs - Wikipedia

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    According to the Sufi philosophies, the nafs in its unrefined state is "the ego", which they consider to be the lowest dimension of a person's inward existence—his animal and satanic nature. [4] Nafs is an important concept in the Islamic tradition, especially within Sufism and the discipline of gnosis ( irfan ) in Shia Islam .

  7. Carltona doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Freedland 'The Rule Against Delegation and the Carltona Doctrine in an Agency Context' [1996] Public Law 19; Freedland 'Privatising Carltona: Part II of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994' [1995] Public Law 21; Lanham 'Delegation and the Alter Ego Principle' (1984) 100 Law Quarterly Review 587

  8. Secret identity - Wikipedia

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    A secret identity is a person's cryptonym, incognito, cover and/or alter ego which is not known to the general populace, most often used in fiction.Brought into popular culture by the Scarlet Pimpernel in 1903, the concept was widespread in pulp heroes and is particularly prevalent in the American comic book genre, and is a trope of the masquerade.

  9. Ishq Zahe Naseeb - Wikipedia

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    Ishq Zahe Naseeb (Urdu: عشق زہے نصیب, lit. 'Love, My Good Luck') is a Pakistani mystery drama television series co-produced by Momina Duraid and Moomal Shunaid under MD Productions and Moomal Entertainment, which started on Hum TV on 21 June 2019.