doctrine of identity

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doctrine of identity - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Identism \I*den"tism\, n. [See Identity.] (Metaph.)
     The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and
     subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called
     also the system of identity or doctrine of identity.
     [1913 Webster]