Notably, this is what Marcia aims to describe in his conception of identity diffusion as an adaptive form of identity under postmodern conditions.
Natality challenges a fixed conception of identity, makes evident that self and non-self are not in opposition, and that identity "erupts from the flesh" (39).
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.
Blecher suggests that this is how we ended up with market-friendly multiculturalism and, in universities, an almost consumerist conception of identity politics.
Many Latinos argue that the country's race categories — indeed, the government's very conception of identity — do not fit them.
Even accepting a classical conception of identity and difference, there remain issues to settle.
By way of objection to such teleological conception of identity it might be challenged that something can only become merged with God, or become God, if it is now different from God.
A conception of identity criteria which allows this characterisation of the notion of a sortal concept, and which has so far not been mentioned, is that of Dummett (1981).
