Concept · dictionary entry

Identity Preservation

The property that an entity remains the same entity across a change of context or evidence.

Definition

Identity preservation is the property that an entity in a relational geometry remains the same entity across a change of context, evidence or representation. It is testable as a conformance property under the black-box framework of the third paper in the series.

Formal reference

Machine Entity Comprehension: A Black-Box Conformance Framework for Identity, Context and Change — §3

Related concepts

• machine entity
• conformance test

Demonstrations

• Chamber scenario scenario-2

Limitations

• Identity preservation under one transformation does not imply preservation under all
• An entity may be preserved by one invariant and lost by another