| I°den°ti°ty noun The fact of being who or what a person or thing is. |
A close similarity or affinity
Be not water, taking the tint of all colors
To say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
The philosophical concept concerns a relation, specifically, a relation that x and y stand if, and only if they are one and the same thing, or identical to each other.
(i.e. if, and only if x = y)
What does it mean for an object to be the same if it changes over time?
Is the river the same river, as the water changes with each passing moment?
I saw the face with skin, lips, hair and eyes. I didn’t see any thoughts or brain. I expected to see something because this time I was looking for it.
The face in the mirror told me nothing. It could belong to anyone or to no one. I want to see the heart and soul behind the face.
To say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing
– Wittgenstein
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life
– Jospeh Campbell
I looked at the face in the mirror and asked it, “Who am I?” The face just stared back at me. I looked deep into the eyes and asked it again, louder this time,
“Who am I?
“Who am I? Who am I?, I demanded. There was only silence, blank and empty. How do I know this is my face? Maybe I don’t have a face at all. I didn’t realize then that I was asking a question or which the answer could not answer the question.
Without a body, a mind would not be able to make certain types of judgments
Identity (in mathematics): an equation that holds true for all values of a variable
The true identity theft is not financial. It is not in cyberspace. It is spiritual. It is being taken.
The sociological notion of identity has to do with a person’s self conception, social presentation, and more generally, the aspects of a person that makes them unique or qualitatively different from others
The universe purportedly exists in a state of flowing potential