self-identical

Now, in the case of a man's being self-identical, Aquinas says the cause is just “the unity of his substance”, where by this he seems to mean that what makes a man identical to himself is just the man himself.

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

And of course it was the same sort of invocation that enabled them to avoid saying that Socrates corresponds to the concept of ˜self-identical™ or that God corresponds to the concepts ˜Lord™ or

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

But in order to maintain that things can be self-identical apart from the activity of any mind, while at the same time maintaining that self-identity is a relation of reason, medieval philosophers have little choice but to move away from the traditional characterization.

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

For insofar as relations of reason depend for their existence on the activity of the mind, it would seem to follow that something's being self-identical is mind dependent.

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

˜Aristotle is self-identical™ is necessarily true.

The Epistemology of Modality Vaidya, Anand 2007

The identity relation, for instance, can relate items of any ontological category (since everything is self-identical).

The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

For Adorno, the basic fault of ontology in general, and of Heidegger's "foundational ontology" in particular, is its essentialism, which seeks the eternal, self-identical truth underneath the flow of history.

Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

A more radical modal fictionalism is possible: one in which modal claims themselves (such as the claim that there could have been blue swans, or that necessarily, everything is self-identical) are not literally true, but only true according to a fiction.

Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007

For example, it was as an astronomical discovery that The Morning Star was identical to the Evening Star, so it would be odd to treat an expression like ˜The Morning Star is the Evening Star™ as merely asserting some object to be self-identical.

Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

It is immediately and clearly problematic, however: how can we have objects that are not self-identical?

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory French, Steven 2006