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Identity

Identity may refer to:

Philosophy

- Identity (philosophy), the sameness of two things
- Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
- Personal identity (philosophy)
- Identity (social science)
- Identity formation
- Law of identity, a principle of logic

Mathematics

- Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
- Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
- Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
- Identity matrix, a square matrix I with ones on the diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Social science and psychology

- Identity (social science), stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
- Cultural identity, a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
- Gender identity, the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others)
- Psychological identity, an individual's unique identity that develops relatively late in his life. (see Identity formation)
- Identity In Organizational Communication, organizational communication scholars look at how our membership in different organizations shapes our “selves,” both in our workplace and in our group affiliations.
- Online identity, established and used by computer network users (see also Digital identity in Computer Science)
- identity politics, the focus of political debates around questions of group indentity
- National identity, belief in membership of a nation. In some countries where there is more than one "nation" in the state or identity is otherwise confused, there may be a debate over what the nation's real identity is, see:
- *Britishness, Scottish national identity
- *Canadian identity, Québécois nation motion

Business

- Accounting identity, a basic accounting relation that must hold by definition
- Corporate identity, the physical manifestation of a business brand
- Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes

Computer science

- Digital identity, the representation of identity in terms of digital information (see also online identity in social science)
- Federated identity, identity management with defined trust relations between independent principals
- Laws of identity http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/thelaws.html, laws that define a unifying identity metasystem
- Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.
- Identity column in SQL Server, a database field whose values uniquely identify a row in the table

Religion

- Christian Identity, a Christian religious movement

Television, film, music and literature

- Identity (novel)|''Identity'' (novel), by Milan Kundera
- Identity (film)|''Identity'' (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
- Identity (album)|''Identity'' (album), by Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris
- Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
- Identity (game show)|''Identity'' (game show), a short lived game show
- Identity (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)|"Identity" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''
- Identity (Burn Notice)|Identity, an episode of the USA Network television show ''Burn Notice''.
- Identify (song), a Natalie Imbruglia song
- iD_eNTITY, a manhwa
- the name of the BNP magazine

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