identism

[Eng. ident (ity); -ism.] [IDEN TITY, (3).] IMG:content-1440.png:[blocks in formation] Ontology: The principle that every ens is nece arily itself and not any other ens. This follows directly from the first principle of Scholastic Phi IMG:content-1441.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1442.png:[blocks in formation] Tracy in his Eléments d' Idéologie (1801-4) to desigHist. & Philos .: A terrn introduced by Destutt de nate the philosophy of the French Sensational School. The mind, according to de Tracy, is nothing but sensation, or more properly the sensibility of which sensation is the exercise. This sensibility is susceptible of impre ions arising (1) from the present action of objects upon its organs, when it feels simply; (2) from past actions, when it repeats or recollects; (3) from things which have relations, and so may be compared, when it judges; and (4) from the wants of the individual, when it wills. Thus sensation, according to the nature of its objects, manifests itself as pure perception, memory, judgment, or will. The word has now come to have a more extended meaning, and its use is not confined to a particular school.