enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Identity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(philosophy)

    In Hegel's words, "Identity is the identity of identity and non-identity." More recent metaphysicians have discussed trans-world identity—the notion that there can be the same object in different possible worlds. An alternative to trans-world identity is the counterpart relation in Counterpart theory. It is a similarity relation that rejects ...

  3. Law of identity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_identity

    Objectivism, the philosophy founded by novelist Ayn Rand, is grounded in three axioms, one of which is the law of identity, "A is A." In the Objectivism of Ayn Rand, the law of identity is used with the concept existence to deduce that that which exists is something. [6] In Objectivist epistemology logic is based on the law of identity. [7]

  4. Functionalism (philosophy of mind) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(philosophy...

    State one, for example, is simply the state in which the machine, if it reads a B, writes a 1 and stays in that state, and in which, if it reads a 1, it moves one square to the right and goes into a different state. This is the functional definition of state one; it is its causal role in the overall system.

  5. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

    Identity is a relation that every entity has to itself as a form of sameness. It refers to numerical identity when the same entity is involved, as in the statement "the morning star is the evening star" (both are the planet Venus).

  6. National identity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity

    Under international law, the term national identity, concerning states, is interchangeable with the term state's identity or sovereign identity of the state. A State's identity by definition, is related to the Constitutional name of the state used as a legal identification in international relations and an essential element of the state's ...

  7. State (polity) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

    Satellite states are states that have de facto sovereignty but are often indirectly controlled by another state. Definitions of a state are disputed. [6] [7] According to sociologist Max Weber: a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, although other definitions are common.

  8. Person - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person

    In the modern philosophy of mind, this concept of personal identity is sometimes referred to as the diachronic problem of personal identity. The synchronic problem is grounded in the question of what features or traits characterize a given person at one time. Identity is an issue for both continental philosophy [citation needed] and analytic ...

  9. Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness

    The great human stream arises from a singular realization that nothingness is a state of mind in which we can become anything, in reference to our situation, that we desire. The difference between existence and identity projection remains at the heart of human subjects who are swept up by their own condition, their "bad faith".