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In addition, personalized individual semantics (PIS) is an important tool in large-scale decision-making to reflect the differences in the semantic understanding of DMs. However, the confidence level in LPRs-SC limits the preference relation to a certain extent and the linguistic representations of these two components are usually different. This means that it is not only necessary to propose an arithmetic rule that can express the restrictive relationship between the two but also to construct a model that can extract the PIS of preference relation and confidence respectively. Besides, we constructed a two-stage consensus reaching process (CRP) based on the specificity of the LPRs-SC structure when enhancing group harmony. The process takes self-confidence as an independent source of information, delineates the adjusted categories in detail, and builds an adjustment model accordingly. 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