A human-made concept for a character virtue in which a person maintains a modest assessment of their own importance, abilities, and fallibility — not self-erasure, but the disciplined correction of self-inflation. It operates as a social regulator (modesty norms), a spiritual discipline (humility before the divine), and an intellectual stance (awareness of cognitive limits). [formal: humilitas | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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humility
A human-made concept for a character virtue in which a person maintains a modest assessment of their own importance, abilities, and fallibility — not self-erasure, but the disciplined correction of self-inflation. It operates as a social r…
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A human-made concept for a character virtue involving modest assessment of one's own importance, limitations, and fallibility — the map, not the natural disposition.
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- humilityen · CANONICAL
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Humility operates as a disposition toward truth — intellectual humility corrects self-inflation and aligns belief with reality. The servant (humility) points at the master (truth-seeking).
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Humility is a specific kind of virtue — a character quality of recognizing one's own limitations and avoiding self-inflation. Per Law 9: a competent speaker would call humility 'a virtue.' Files against nearest kind. Direction: humility (specific) → virtue (general). The note pins the sense to intellectual/moral virtue, not social standing.
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