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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'talk'

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

1207	Both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity [Hume]

11380

Two things with the same primary being and essence are one thing [Aristotle]

21290

Multiple objects cannot convey identity, because we see them as different [Hume]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

17848

Things such as two different quadrangles are alike but not wholly the same [Aristotle]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity

21289

'An object is the same with itself' is meaningless; it expresses unity, not identity [Hume]

21292

Saying an object is the same with itself is only meaningful over a period of time [Hume]

16134

We can't understand self-identity without a prior grasp of the object [Aristotle]

17847

You are one with yourself in form and matter [Aristotle]