What is Identity?
{{enWiktionary}} '''Identity''' could mean: ==Philosophy== * [[Identity (philosophy)]] is 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]] ==Mathematics== *An [[Identity (mathematics)|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; [[identity function]], [[identity element]] and [[identity matrix]] ==Social science and psychology== *[[Identity (social science)]]. In the social sciences, ''identity'' has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology. *[[Cultural identity]] is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group. *[[Gender identity]] is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others). *[[Digital identity]] is the representation of identity in terms of digital information. *[[Online identity]] is the digital identity established by computer network users. *[[Psychological identity]] is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history. ==Business== *An [[accounting identity]] is a basic accounting formulation that must, by construction, hold; for example, the [[balance sheet]] of a company must balance. The term may also be used to apply to formulations in [[economics]] that have the same characteristics, for example, the [[balance of payments]] must balance. *[[Corporate identity]] is the physical manifestation of a business brand. *[[Identity theft]] is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes. ==Computer science== *[[Identity (object-oriented programming)]], a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other. *[[Identity column]] in SQL Server represents a database field whose values are automatically generated by the server, and uniquely ide