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Here is a chain of statements I invented for better understanding the difference between character and personality (please don't send me to other threads, I have read dozens of them).
So where is the mistake (not grammar, but logical) in the following statements, which of them is wrong:
1) Sometimes our personality is not what we really are in character.
2) Sometimes our personality coincides with what we actually are in character.
3) A person can have a cheerful personality (that's how people see him), but his real self, his character, can be different from what it seems (gloomy).
4) A person can have a cheerful personality (that's how people see him), and he can ACTUALLY be cheerful in character.
5) When we feel that we know the person well, we can say:
He has a cheerful character (if he REALLY is a cheerful person and not only seems to be such)?
:?:
Where is the logical mistake?
So where is the mistake (not grammar, but logical) in the following statements, which of them is wrong:
1) Sometimes our personality is not what we really are in character.
2) Sometimes our personality coincides with what we actually are in character.
3) A person can have a cheerful personality (that's how people see him), but his real self, his character, can be different from what it seems (gloomy).
4) A person can have a cheerful personality (that's how people see him), and he can ACTUALLY be cheerful in character.
5) When we feel that we know the person well, we can say:
He has a cheerful character (if he REALLY is a cheerful person and not only seems to be such)?
:?:
Where is the logical mistake?