It is still controversial, however, as to when such declarations are to be taken as identity assertions, with pantheistic or acosmic intentions, and when they are perhaps hyperbolic variations on descriptions of union-type experiences.
Moreover, the remaining laws the laws of non-contradiction and excluded middle apply more generally than to identity assertions; thus they cannot be expressed in their full generality without invoking assertions of the form S is P and S is not P. (That is, the law of excluded middle cannot be expressed as: either A is A or A is not A; similarly, mutatis mutandis, for the law of non-contradiction).
Moreover, in these postcolonial times we all too often experience reactive fabrications of identity and assertions of counter-superiority, reactions which ironically reinforce the same kind of colonial divisions and obsessions with unadulterated self-identity that were imposed by, or imported from, the worst of the West.
That was a period when middle-class America was beginning a nearly mass communion with psychiatry, or, certainly, with the forms or language of the psychiatric experience, and it was the personal gropings of the psychiatric patient — the stumbling, sensibility-prone, identity-obsessed assertions — that formed both the underpinning of the new humor and the material to play off on.
However, at the moment of Kenya's achievement of independence from colonial rule, such identities and assertions of power were challenged as statues were removed from the city.
He said that he wanted to protect Generali's "national identity", an extraordinary assertion that he quickly came to regret.
They exude a progressive attitude that says "[you] can be whatever [you] want to be" (from the cover flap of Jacob's New Dress), alongside stories of fixed identity (Jazz's assertion that she "was born this way!").
A number of individuals claim to have discovered his true identity, but those assertions have either been denied or ignored by those named.
But there is a significance to this comically grandiose assertion of identity that the casual visitor might miss.
