law of identity

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noun

Logic.

1. the law that any proposition implies itself.

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law of identity

Besides aiding the comforting expression of moral disapproval, the law of identity has yet another useful purpose in practical ethics: It serves the welcome purpose of providing an excuse for infractions of the moral law.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 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.

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

Especially is this the case with regard to the law of identity.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph