 In the former case (the subject says ‘yes’) the respective motive becomes “a position-taking that issues from [the subject’s] own ego”, as opposed to a mere stimulus coming from outside; the subject “annexes” it on his or her “own accord” (eignet es sich selbsttätig an), i.e. it internalizes the corresponding value (Husserliana, vol. IV, §60, p. 269; Husserl 1989, p. 281). This enables the subject to get to know itself as an individual person, i.e. with regard to its “personal character-traits” (Husserliana, vol. XIV, p. 18), notably by learning “how such and such motives [...] would affect me, how I, as the one that I am, would act and could act, how I could, and how I could not, judge, value and will” (Husserliana, vol. IV, §60, p. 265f; Husserl 1989, p. 278). Husserl’s conception of individual personhood also underlies his ethics (see end of Section 9).