1. (n.) Doctrine of devotion to self-interest; excessive love and thought of self -- opposed to altruism.
2. (n.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
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