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selfsameness - What does it mean?

Definition of 'selfsameness'

English

Alternative forms

* self-sameness

Noun

(-)
  • The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity.
  • There is no doubt about the selfsameness of the morning Sun with the evening Sun.
  • * 1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies :
  • Now the first condition of the possibility of my guiltiness, or of my becoming a subject for moral imputation, is my self-sameness ; I must be throughout one identical person.