Same and Other

Every Form is the same as itself and other than every other Form; sameness and otherness are woven into the structure of reality.

Sameness is said in several ways: things can be one in number, in species, or in genus, and each kind of identity has its own logic.

The Many proceed from the One by a necessity rooted in otherness; yet every derived being retains its identity only by turning back toward its source.

In the Trinity, the persons are relationally distinct yet numerically identical in essence; real distinction without any division of substance.

Personal identity is continuity of consciousness, not sameness of substance; wherever memory reaches, there the self extends.

No two substances can be exactly alike; if there is no internal difference, there is no real distinction.

Personal identity is a fiction of the imagination; the self is a bundle of perceptions with no underlying substance to hold it together.

The 'I think' must accompany all my representations, yet this unity of apperception is a formal condition of experience, not a substance.

Identity contains difference within itself; a thing is what it is only through what it is not.