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Ideas for 'works', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction' and 'Utilitarianism'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

11874	Real identity admits of no degrees [Reid]
	Full Idea: Wherever identity is real, it admits of no degrees.
	From: Thomas Reid (Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction [1785]), quoted by David Wiggins - Sameness and Substance Renewed 6 epig
	A reaction: Wiggins quotes this with strong approval. Personally I am inclined to think that identity may admit of no degrees in human thought, because that is the only way we can do it, but the world is full of uncertain identities, at every level.