third-person

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first person
noun[ U ]
us/ˈfɜrst ˈpɜr·sən/
grammar
the form of pronouns and verbs people use when speaking or writing about themselves:
“I,” “me,” and “my” are first person singular pronouns, and “we,” “us,” and “our” are first person plural pronouns.
literature
The first person is a style of writing in which a story is told in the voice of one of the characters:
Autobiographies are written in the first person.

Examples of the first person

the first person
I entirely agree, but only because this is a true story told from a first-person perspective, which does not, unfortunately, escape epiphenomenalism.
Most interestingly, the visual evidence for the third-person actor is coded by the first-person-actor marker added to the verb.
A first-person perspective is the basis of all self-consciousness.
The necessity of taking this first-person fact into account shows that even persons without spatial location can be distinguished by first-person point of view.
What distinguishes persons from all other beings is that they have first-person perspectives essentially.
Finally, there is first-person meaning ; this may be a functional or an intrinsic meaning, but in any case it has an existential concern.
In all of these instances the subject is in the first-person singular, and the narrated situation is in the past.
Through the binoculars the first-person narrator sees a beautiful woman whom he thinks he knows.
That is, that of first-person point of view.
What is needed is a criterion for sameness of first-person perspective over time.
In most first-person texts the speaker appears to concentrate entirely on the female, providing information about her and the context.
The first-person subjective style of speech always gives way to the objective third-person mode.
Indeed, on the animalist view, our having first-person perspectives (or any mental states at all) is irrelevant to the kind of being that we are.
Only from the combined experience of these first-person perspectives can we get a well-rounded sense of what it is like to be human on earth.
I discuss them only to indicate that what looks like straight first-person material is liable to reaccentuation through a third-person perspective.
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