Sentence examples for sameness over time from inspiring English sources
The existence of substances (and thus of the self as a real and lasting thing) requires three things: ontological separation between things (making the self distinct from others), internal unity (so that it is one self), and sameness over time (so it remains the same self).
This includes narrative, or biographical, and practical identity, and is less about criteria for sameness over time and more about the essential features of one's self- (or social) conception.
"People change over time.
Reid constructs a theory of personal identity in opposition to Locke's account, which appeals to psychological continuity as a necessary condition for sameness of person over time.
Yet he noted that the laws of motion permit us to determine, not the velocity of any motion in space, but only the absolute sameness of direction of an inertial trajectory over time, and the equality of time-intervals in which an inertially-moving particle moves equal distances.
One candidate is that inner sense allows me to represent this identity: the way I represent the sameness of the subject is akin to how I commonly represent the identity over time of ordinary objects — by a cognitive sensitivity to similarities among the intrinsic properties represented.
This has been demonstrated in the work of Ravaud and Stiker [ 7, 8] who describe how, over time and place, conceptualizations of the universal slip from the promotion of individual equality to a desire for sameness and assimilation.
would disappear over time.
