Sentence examples for Conception of identity from inspiring English sources

After all they are many while it is one".[25] So, assuming that the extended many-one conception of identity retains some analogue of Leibniz's law of the indiscernibility of identicals, the one whole cannot be identical to its many parts.

This is not a religious conception of identity.

In the UK much of the talk surrounding this second conception of identity centres on multiculturalism.

Many Latinos argue that the country's race categories — indeed, the government's very conception of identity — do not fit them.

Blecher suggests that this is how we ended up with market-friendly multiculturalism and, in universities, an almost consumerist conception of identity politics.

This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians.

When conceptions of identity have become fragmented, individualistic and consumption-driven, what is our common cause?

This groundbreaking study in conceptions of identity in modern Jewish texts is a vital contribution to the diverse fields of Jewish intellectual history, philosophy, Zionism, and religious studies.

Analysis of multiple data sources revealed that conceptions of identity, beliefs of the nature of the virtual world, and technical skill were primary factors which affected group cohesion and learning within the community.

If that seems just a little too vague and lyrical, then it is worth noting that recent theories of the self which draw on connectionism in cognitive science have very similar conceptions of identity, not "egos in bags of skin" but embodied minds intimately connected to their environment through every vibrant nerve-ending.

"In video-game forums, there is sometimes an expectation that community members share certain qualities (like being straight and male) and agree upon quite narrow conceptions of identity," said Dr Amanda Potts, a researcher at the university's ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.