[Bug 27001] Terminology: identity

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27001

--- Comment #6 from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Liam R E Quin from comment #5)

> This is not the same usage as mathematical identity, but is very common in
> programming language design and specification. Not all languages use the
> term "identity" for this concept, however. Perhaps we should rather say
> haecceity, "this-one-ness".

Not all programming languages use the term 'haecceity' for this either ;-> 

But I agree that this discussion is parallel to the philosophical discussion of
haecceity and quiddity - see
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-haecceity/ for a good introduction.

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