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Re: BIG

Lukas Werth wrote:
> ... could you, Jeffrey, explain the difference between
> "personal" and "social"?

With some further thought, one could also distinguish the differences of
intimate, personal, and social by how much of an individual is noted and
assessed at various distances.
intimate - only a portion of the individual is observed at any moment
personal - most of or the entire individual is dominating the
observation
social - the individual is observed as a part of a larger
situation/environment

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Jeffrey D. Mathias
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