third-personal

English

Adjective

third-personal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the third person.

   Coordinate term: first-personal

   • 2018, Patrizia Pedrini, Julie Kirsch, Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative, page 25:

     The various limitations to first-personal self-knowledge we considered, however, show that ample room for error is provided in figuring out our own mental states. This can be explained by noticing that we often acquire knowledge of our mental states in a third-personal way, even in our own case, as a result of observation of our behavior and of inference to the best explanation; […]