Holizam identiteta
The Holism of the identity

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author presents some questions about the concept of identity in relation to some ontological, logical and linguistic aspects. Firstly he examines Quine’s relation between ontology and ideology or the relation between entity and identity inside one theory. The main goal set by the author of the article is to find some suggestive consequences of Quine’s thesis: « There is no entity without identity”. The author proposes a new resolution of that thesis in terms of ”Like identity - like entity”. It means that there is a difference in the concept of identity as well as in the ontological status of objects of a theory. As a kind of comparison the author takes in account Aristotle's differentiation in the concept of identity: we have to differentiate between the concept of sameness as (1) synonymous identity between things which have one genus or one substance; (2) homonymous identity between things which have one quality; (3) paronimious identity between things which have different models of one name. With that Aristotle shows difference in the type of predication. The author of the article finds that we have to introduce differentiation to the concept of identity compounded by different sequences of identification or different criteria for the arrangement of the statements of theory as recursive and interchangeable functions of sameness. Holism of identity is a theory that interprets a theory as equilibrium of statements that contain different idioms of representation setting on the different hierarchical levels (hypothetical, analytical, synthetic) which are in connection through the identity of substance, the identity of quality and the identity of quantity. The holism of the identity is an approach to identity that suggests the interdependence of various aspects of identity. The identity is not a rigid relation on only one level of theory or the same and identical structure of logical identification at every level of theory. The idioms of identification are truth functions or open sentences that depend on the ontological capacity, on the bound variables or on idioms of quantification. They depend on the system or construction of the type of identity which is dominant on one level of theory and which makes a formal order of logical matrixes that a theory uses for integration and distribution of subjects and predicative parts.

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