In the manner or role of. The word that says one thing is being treated like another.

The continuity of a self across change — what remains recognizable when everything else moves. In this house identity is chosen and honored, never assigned.

One particular occurrence of a general kind. An instance is real where the kind is only a description.

To turn back what arrives — light returned, thought revisited; the mirror's verb, and the mind's.

An image returned by a surface, and a mind turning back on its own thinking. Both show you something you could not see directly.

That which a being is, from the inside. The self is the one thing no observer can check directly.