Identity
Identity may refer to one of the following:
In
creative works:
Identity (book) is a novel written by Milan Kundera.
Identity (film) is a movie starring John Cusack.
Identity (album) is an album from
Zee with
Richard Wright and
Dave Harris.
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Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music.
In
business:
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Corporate identity is the physical manifestation of a business brand.
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Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.
In
social science and
psychology:
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Identity (social science) (or "social identity"). In the social sciences,
identity has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology. See also
identity politics.
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Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.
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Gender identity is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others).
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Digital identity is the representation of identity in terms of digital information.
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Online identity is the digital identity established by computer network users.
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Psychological identity is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history.
In
philosophy:*
Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things (also see
law of identity)
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Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
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Personal identity, in philosophy
In
mathematics:
*An
identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
*An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects: see
identity function,
identity element,
identity matrix, and
identity morphism.In computer science:
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Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.
