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question:what-does-it-mean-for-something-to-be-personalWhat does it mean for something to be personal?
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- Personal feeling is an objective quality inhering in things, not a subjective idiosyncratic responseanswered_byCentral thesis: universality of personal feeling separates it from mere subjectivity
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