Sentence examples for numerical identities from inspiring English sources

Just before the end of World War I, Australia's home forces were reorganised to perpetuate the numerical identities of the AIF units.

There is also the issue that what a dance "is" in practice or for appreciation, in its "essential" features (if there are any), may not be identical with what a dance "is" for purposes of numerical identity and historical preservation.

A fundamental principle about (numerical) identity is Leibniz's Law: the principle that if A is identical with B, then any property of A is a property of B, and vice versa.

The 100 percent word (or, more accurately, number) choice is striking because it evokes the numerical identity politics that took root during the Occupy Wall Street movement this year.

Numerical identity is our topic.

The 'are' reflects the 'is' of numerical identity.

A distinction is customarily drawn between qualitative and numerical identity or sameness.

Put in other words, Reid argues that 'identity' in Locke's theory of personal identity cannot refer to numerical identity.

Numerical identity requires absolute, or total, qualitative identity, and can only hold between a thing and itself.

If narrative identity presupposes numerical identity, though, then we still need a plausible account of numerical identity first, one that can ground an answer to the characterization question the narrative view was built to address.

Numerical identity can be characterised, as just done, as the relation everything has to itself and to nothing else.