IDENTITY

'Identity' may refer to:

Contents

Philosophy

Mathematics

Social science and psychology

Business

Computer science

Religion

Television, film, music and literature

See also

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

★ Online identity, established and used by computer network users (see also Digital identity in Computer Science)

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

★ 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 controversial religious belief that Europeans and their descendants are the Biblical Israel

Television, film, music and literature

★ ''Identity'' (novel), by Milan Kundera

★ ''Identity'' (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack

★ ''Identity'' (album), by Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris

★ Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music

★ ''Identity'' (game show), an NBC game show hosted by Penn Jillette

★ , an episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''

★ Identify (song), a Natalie Imbruglia song

See also

★ Secret identity (disambiguation)

★ Identity theft

★ Identity document

★ Identification (disambiguation)

★ Biometrics

★ Entity