Definition of "identity"
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The sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal.
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The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona (the mask or appearance one presents to the world) by which one is known.
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Knowledge of who one is.
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Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
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An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
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