law of identity
Americannoun
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Neither would the law of identity be infringed.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
For we should in this case have a thing which neither was nor was not, so that the conditions of the law of identity could not exist to be broken.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
Its petals, moreover, furnish the best example of the gradual transition of petals into stamens, —illustrating that wonderful law of identity which is the great discovery of modern science.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
Did the 'law of sharing' so little legitimate their procedure that a law of identity of contradictories, forsooth, must be trumped up to give it scope?
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
At Eton the traditional law of identity of stroke and captain held good, with natural Etonian conservatism, until a date even later than that of the previously related anecdote of Queen’s College.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
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