Identity

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Identity may refer to:

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, the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time

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), 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, how people identify their own sexuality

Specifications of persons

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, 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

Mathematics

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), 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

See also

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