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1 The principle of identity, the relation of a thing to itself.
2 Oneness in number or being, numerical diversity or otherness.
3 The identity of the changing yet enduring individual, personal identity, the continuity of self, the denial of identity in the realm of change.
4 The sameness of things numerically diverse.
5 The being of sameness or similitude, the reality of kinds or universals.
6 The relation between sameness and unity, sameness as a participation in the one.
7 The distinction between sameness and similarity and their opposites, diversity and difference, the composition of sameness and diversity, degrees of likeness and difference, the similarity of family resemblances.
8 The distinction of things in terms of their diversities and differences, real and logical distinctions.
9 The limits of otherness, the impossibility of utter diversity 3. The modes of sameness and otherness or diversity.
10 Essential sameness or difference and accidental sameness or difference (1) Specific and generic sameness, natural and logical genera.
11 The otherness of species in a genus, the diversity of contraries (3) Generic otherness or heterogeneity.
12 Relational sameness, sameness by analogy or proportional similitude.
13 Sameness in quality, or likeness, variations in degree of the same quality.
14 Sameness in quantity, or equality, kinds of equality.
15 Sameness and diversity in the order of knowledge.
16 Likeness or sameness between knower and known, knowledge as involving imitation, intentionality, or representation.
17 The role of differentiation in definition, the diversity of differences.
18 Sameness and diversity in the meaning of words or the significance of terms, the univocal and the equivocal.
19 The principle of likeness in love and friendship.
20 Similitude between God and creatures, the degree and character of the similitude, traces or images of God in creatures.
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