John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.

Isomorphism classes are often defined if the exact identity of the elements of the set is considered irrelevant, and the properties of the structure of the mathematical object are studied.

In law, however, a person does not become an heir before the death of the decedent, since the exact identity of the persons entitled to inherit is determined only then.

Throughout the rest of Major's premiership the exact identity of the three was blurred, with John Redwood's name frequently appearing in a list along with two of the others.

2 Kings is silent about the exact identity of this student.

With a concealed identity, an online user can be whoever they want to be at that exact moment.

The exact intended identity of these animals is not known.

His mother was Agatha, who was described as a relative of the German Emperor, but whose exact identity is unknown.

Christian Culas and Jean Michaud note: " In all these early accounts, then, until roughly the middle of the 19th century, there is perpetual confusion about the exact identity of the population groups designated by the term Miao.

However, the decay chain observed has not been repeated and the exact identity of this activity is unknown, although it is possible that it is due to a meta-stable isomer, namely < sup > 289m </ sup > Fl.

The exact identity of Æthelric is uncertain.

" The exact identity of the goddess remains debated, however.

Today, the reputation of his poetry remains high, though the exact identity of the author is more controversial.

However, null hypotheses can and do have " direction "— in many instances statistical theory allows the formulation of the test procedure to be simplified, thus the test is equivalent to testing for an exact identity.

Hamilton lived there in America ( in La Jolla to be exact ) for ten years under the new identity, keeping his body in shape and getting psychologial help.

Puma gave birth to a son in July 1916, though there is confusion about the exact identity of the child.

The exact price and the identity of the buyer were not disclosed, however, and all bidders reportedly were sworn to secrecy.

The exact identity of silphium is unclear.

However, the exact identity of the " elder John " is wound up in the debate on the authorship of the Gospel of John, and scholars have differing opinions on that, e. g. Jack Finegan states that Eusebius may have misunderstood what Papias wrote, and the elder John may be a different person from the author of the fourth gospel, yet still a disciple of Jesus.

The exact identity of the Parsuwash is yet to be determined but from a linguistic viewpoint the word matches Old Persian pārsa itself coming directly from the older word * pārćwa.

Sunnis and other Shi ' ites believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah.

Sunnis believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah.

The earliest description of the cardoon may come from the fourth century BC Greek writer Theophrastus, under the name (), although the exact identity of this plant is uncertain.

The names of a number of gates of the Constantinian Wall survive, but scholars debate their identity and exact location.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

The exact number and extent of these pagi is unclear and probably changed over time.

The exact mechanism of carbamazepine, gabapentin and pregabalin is similarly unclear, but these anticonvulsants are used to treat neuropathic pain with differing degrees of success.

The exact chemical composition and the sequence in which these units are arranged is called the primary structure, in the case of proteins.

The exact date of composition for both of these works is unknown.

As these methods are pushed to the limit, they approach the exact solution of the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation.

Comic book historians continue to debate the exact boundaries of these eras, but they have come to an agreement, the terms for which originated in the fan press.

Because these vary considerably, and because only a few sketches are known to have been drawn from live specimens, its exact appearance remains a mystery.

The exact meaning of any of these terms varies from one system to another.

Thus, ecosystem processes are driven by the number of species in an ecosystem, the exact nature of each individual species, and the relative abundance organisms within these species.

Even the " exact " FFT algorithms have errors when finite-precision floating-point arithmetic is used, but these errors are typically quite small ; most FFT algorithms, e. g. Cooley – Tukey, have excellent numerical properties as a consequence of the pairwise summation structure of the algorithms.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

In broadest terms, these will either be surface ( ground or water ) or air, and then sub-categorized by range and the exact target type ( such as anti-tank or anti-ship ).

( The exact order of these things differs according to the preferred theological framework of Millennialism used to interpret the passages )

( More colorful versions have circulated in the folklore, suggesting, for example, that December 31, 1840 was the exact date of the first entry in the MGH records, but these seem to be urban legends.

The exact location of these places was censored from Studio Ghibli's production diaries.

The exact nature of these components is still unknown and is currently under intensive investigation by physicists.

The reflections from these surfaces can only be described statistically, with the exact distribution of the reflected light depending on the microscopic structure of the material.

Preterists disagree significantly about the exact meaning of the terms used to denote these divisions of preterist thought.

In the case of proteins, the exact chemical composition and the sequence in which these units are arranged is called the primary structure.

Given the difficulty in specifying exact distributions of sample statistics, many methods have been developed for approximating these.

The SPR was the first organisation of its kind in the world, its stated purpose being " to approach these varied problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned enquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.

Unlike general metaheuristics, which at best work only in a probabilistic sense, many of these tree-search methods are guaranteed to find the exact or optimal solution, if given enough time.

Depending on the system, schools for this period or a part of it may be called secondary schools, high schools, gymnasia, lyceums, middle schools, sixth-form, sixth-form colleges, vocational schools and preparatory schools, and the exact meaning of any of these varies between the systems.