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empirical ego
n. (context philosophy phenomenology English) In the thought of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel%20Kant and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.