...of identity and diversity' tEssay II. xxvii. 1l. Then he quickly moves on to an attempted proof that 'one thing cannot have two beginnings of existence nor two things one beginning'. For whatever exists. anywhere at any time. excludes all of the same kind and is there itself alone...

...pinatas hanging in exactly the same place when you passed earlier. Locke puts the point like this: to be or exist in the same instant, in the very same...place; or one and the same thing in different places. (E Il.xxvii.i: 328) Whenever we ask whether an object before us is the same, we always refer back in...

...distinction between the identity of a mass of matter, an organism, and a person. Locke holds both that 'one thing cannot have two beginnings of existence, nor two things one beginning'; and because of that he defines the body as 'two or more atoms joined together in the same mass,' to...

...other. From whence it follow«, that one thing cannot have two beginnings of existence, nor two tbingi i one beginning; it being impossible for two things...place, or one and the same thing in different places. That therefore that had one beginning, is the same tiling; and that which had a different beginning...