attestation
(en)
defined by Ricoeur as the balance of the idem and the ipse: one's belief in oneself, which cannot be verified by empirical evidence or extrinsic proof, but is based in confidence
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attestation
Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel
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