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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Identity \I*den"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Identities}. [F. identit[82], LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. {Item}.] 1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods. 3. (Math.) An identical equation. | |
