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Full Idea
Two terms are identical when the second belongs to every class to which the first belongs.
Gist of Idea
Terms are identical if they belong to all the same classes
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §026)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.23