| accidental property | A property a thing can lose without ceasing to exist.
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| animalism | The doctrine that identical persons are those with identical living human bodies.
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| apparent memory | A memory of an event that either didn't happen or that was not caused by the event it records.
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| brain theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those who are psychologically continuous with one another and whose psychology is caused by and realized in the same brain.
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| closest continuer theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those who are the closest continuers of one another.
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| direct memory | A memory that a person can consciously recall.
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| essential property | A property a thing cannot lose without ceasing to exist.
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| indirect memory | A memory that an earlier stage of a person can consciously recall.
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| memory theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those who share at least one experience memory.
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| nonbranching theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those who are psychologically continuous with one another and whose causal connection has not branched.
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| numerical identity | Two objects are numerically identical if and only if they are one and the same.
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| only x and y principle | The principle that whether one thing, x, is identical to another thing, y, can only depend on facts about x and y.
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| psychological connectedness | Two people are psychologically connected if they can directly (consciously) quasi-remember and quasi-desire the same things.
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| psychological continuity | Two people are psychologically continuous with one another if they form part of an overlapping series of persons who are psychologically connected with one another.
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| psychological continuity theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those who are psychologically continuous with one another.
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| qualitative identity | Two objects are qualitatively identical if and only if they share the same properties (qualities).
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| quasi-desire | An apparent desire that is caused in the right way by an actual desire.
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| quasi-memory | An apparent memory caused in the right way by an actual experience.
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| real memory | A memory of an event that was experienced by the person remembering it and that was caused by the event it records.
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| soul theory | The doctrine that identical persons are those with identical souls.
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