Identity

Specifications of persons

• Identity change
• Identity document
• Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
• Personally identifiable information

Personal conception and expression

• Gender identity, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies
• Identity formation, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
• Identity (social science), umbrella term used to describe individuality, personal identity, social identity, and cultural identity in psychology, sociology, and philosophy
• Persona, a social role or a character played by an actor with oneself
• Sexual orientation identity, describes how persons identify their own sexuality

Group expression and affiliation

• Christian Identity, a Christian religious movement
• Cultural identity, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
• Identity politics, refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups or minorities
• National identity, belief in membership of a nation
  • Britishness
    • Scottish national identity
  • Canadian identity
    • Québécois nation motion
  • Taiwanese identity
    • Taiwanese localization movement
    • Taiwanization
    • Taiwan Name Rectification Campaign
    • tangwai movement

Philosophical topics

• Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
• Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
• Personal identity (philosophy), refers to the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time

Mathematics

• Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
• Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
• Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity matrix, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Business

• Accounting identity, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
• Corporate identity, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks

Computer science

• Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
• Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
• Identity column, database field that uniquely identifies every row in the table and is made up of values generated by the database
• Identity management, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
• Identity (object-oriented programming), describes the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
• Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites

Culture and the arts

• iD_eNTITY, manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon, along with Kim Youn-kyung, distributed by Tokyopop in North America
• Identity (Zee album), 1984 album by Richard Wright and Dave Harris of Zee
• Identity (BoA album), 2010 album by BoA
• "Identity", a song from the album Germ Free Adolescents by X-Ray Spex
• "Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
• Identity (dj), a new england based hard dance disc jockey
• Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
• Identity (game show), a short-lived game show
• Identity, an episode of Legend of the Seeker
• Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
• Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
• Identity (TV series)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – "Identity", an episode of the TV series
• The name of the BNP magazine

In philosophy, the self is the idea of a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness.

Sourced

• The Arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.
  • Francis Bacon. ‘On Love’, Essays (1597-1625)

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
  • Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, No. 8 (1930)

• Cogito, ergo sum.
• I think, therefore I am.
  • Descartes Discours de la Méthode, Discourse on the Method (1637)

• Identity is an illusion, a temporary state. Everyone is searching for it, but it’s only a brief reflection in a very shallow pool of time.
  • Olivia Dresher (b. 1945), American poet and publisher. ‘Aphorisms by Olivia Dresher’ on, Olivia Dresher.com

• Self-correction begins with self-knowledge.
  • Baltasar Gracián. In maxim 69, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

• The best mirror is an old friend.
  • George Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651) (17th Century English proverb)

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now - when?
  • Hillel, from Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations p. 459 (1972)

• Self: that invisible chain that snaps tight whenever we stray.
  • Yahia Lababidi (b. 1973), Egyptian-Lebanese essayist and poet. Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)

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Sun Jul 25 17:17:32 2010