non-self

See also: nonself

English

Noun

non-self (countable and uncountable, plural non-selfs or non-selves)

1. Alternative form of nonself
   • 2009, Bill Whitehouse, Meditations of a Sufi:

     Signs are inherent in the various aspects of the immune system which differentiate self from non-self.

   • 2009, Hongwei Mo, Handbook of Research on Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing [… ]:

     For the artificial immune system, the recognition of the non-selfs is classified into two types according to the difference among the non-selfs, and the two approaches for recognizing the non-selfs are inspired from the innate immunity and the adaptive immunity in the biological immune system.

   • 2013, Shaun Gallagher, Models of the Self, →ISBN, (Google books online):

     [W]e could at least begin to answer the question, What is self? by referring to some paradigm cases of selves . . . and some paradigm case of non-selves.