Identity A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (1)
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13 William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, poster by Scottish Rite Theater, 2015 Courtesy of Austin Sco ...
Introduction: an ‘identity’ wave An obsession is gripping the world—the obsession with identity. In 2015, ...
Number of English-language books with ‘identity’ in the title, catalogued in the Library of Congress. Sameness ...
Is there anything that has no identity? If we limit our survey to the English- speaking world, the answer ...
exceptions (Polish for example), European languages, from French identité to Russian identichnost, from Dutch ...
Chapter 1 ‘Who am I?’ Identity in philosophy Know thyself! Surely there are things more interesting to ponder than ...
Many Western thinkers followed his lead. Rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) explained that I ...
compels us to admit that real change is impossible. Parmenides’ doctrine led to materialism, a worldview t ...
Our identity through time certainly requires as one of its conditions one body rather than two. My clone ...
of identity offer an easy way out. There is this photograph of a boy on horseback. That’s me, though I ...
Interactionism recognizes the existence of mind and body as two distinct but interacting dimensions of the self ...
something given, constant, and immutable; but that is a habit it may be time to rethink. Autognosis Isn’t ...
Socrates’ question ‘Who am I?’ in our time. All the things we do with ourselves nowadays make us see ...
The question ‘Who am I?’ has been the starting point of the inquiry into human identity since the earlie ...
Chapter 2 Identity in logic and the classical law of thought Indiscernibles In his book Word and Object (§24), W ...
a proposition that asserts that something equals itself. Surely, this is true. According to one influential in ...
Leibniz converses with Sophie Charlotte in the park of Herrenhausen about the possibility of finding two iden ...
relations with their location and other objects; for otherwise, congruent geometric figures would be counte ...
Signs and objects In everyday discourse, we use sentences of this synthetic form all the time, connecting t ...
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