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Personal identity
Personal Per"son*al, a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.] 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. 2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. --Locke. 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison. 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.' --Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action. Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation. Personal estate or property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature. Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals. Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased. Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property. Personal tithes. See under Tithe. Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.
system or doctrine of identity
Identism I*den"tism, n. [See Identity.] (Metaph.) The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

Meaning of identity from wikipedia

- identity may refer to: philosophical topics : identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and
- in psychology and sociology , identity is a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations (such as
- an identity document (also called a piece of identification or id, or colloquially as one's 'papers') is any document which may be used to
- identity theft is a form of stealing someone's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity,
- cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture , or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group
- in mathematics , an identity element (or neutral element) is a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that
- in mathematics , the term identity has several different important meanings: an identity is an equality relation a b, such that a and b
- personal identity is the unique numerical identity of person s through time. date june 2012 that is to say, the necessary and sufficient
- gender identity is a person's private sense of, and subjective experience of, their own gender . formation of a social identity in relation
- in mathematics , an identity function, also called identity relation or identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always