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Nonentity
Nonentity Non*en"ti*ty, n.; pl. Nonentities. 1. Nonexistence; the negation of being. 2. A thing not existing. --South. 3. A person or thing of little or no account. [Colloq.]
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 Entity from wikipedia

- Entity may refer to: Character entity reference, replacement text for a character in HTML or XML Entity cl****, a thing of interest within an entity–relationship...
- The Entity is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie, and written by Frank De Felitta, who adapted his 1978 novel of the...
- A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per corporate law in order to engage in business activities, charitable work, or other...
- be an economic entity. Examples of economic entities are hospitals, companies, muni****lities, and federal agencies. The "Economic entity ****umption" states...
- composed of entity types (which cl****ify the things of interest) and specifies relationships that can exist between entities (instances of those entity types)...
- An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion...
- A polity is an identifiable political entity—any group of people who have a collective identity, who are organized by some form of institutionalized social...
- character entity reference. This article lists the character entity references that are valid in HTML and XML do****ents. A character entity reference...
- A territorial entity is an entity that covers a part of the surface of the Earth with specified borders. Physiographic regions of the world Established...
- In the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an entity is a primitive data type, which ****ociates a string with either a unique alias (such as a...
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