There is the caste, or "spiritual identity," argument, like the one advanced by Brahmans who renounced flesh in order to distinguish themselves, in matters of high-mindedness and noble breeding, from the hungry poor.
Threshold values of 0.95, 0.99 and 1.00 (i.e. corresponding to 95%, 99 % and 100, respectively) was set using the identity argument to produce a reduced subset consisting of 136, 261 and 397 FPs, respectively.
If the United States is to retain its cultural identity, the argument goes, it cannot accept everyone who wants to come here.
Interestingly, the identity-based arguments, which are the most similar to racism – you know, "We shouldn't allow these people because they're different to us" – weren't something we found, particularly.
Interestingly, the identity-based arguments, which are the most similar to racism you know, "We shouldn't allow these people because they're different to us"—weren't something we found, particularly.
There are also respects in which the relevant Kripkean argument against identity, as an argument against token identity, is committed to more than the two-dimensionalist argument.
It is important to keep the anti-identity theory argument separate from the pro-functionalism argument, as some criticisms of multiple realizability may be telling against one but irrelevant against the other.
The resurrection is more an identity than an argument.
Geach perceives an ontological advantage in relative identity; but his argument is unconvincing.
The argument against relative identity works by arguing that, if one allowed relative identity, a contradiction would follow, namely that one would get a situation in which a is G, a = b and b is not G.
