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Persons as well as things endure over time. People are born as infants, grow into adolescence, mature into adults and decline in senescence. An acorn takes root, a sapling emerges, a tree develops verdant foliage and eventually enters into a decline. Change is an ongoing and omnipresent phenomenon. Yet change is devoid of meaning unless understood as an accident, in the Aristotelian sense of the term, of some underlying substratum or of a Kantian Ding-an-sich that remains constant. The problem of identity has long been the bane of philosophers. Common sense tell us that, despite the flow of time and the assumption of different characteristics, there exists a constant element in every person or thing. What is the essence of continuity that exists despite change? Certainly, it is that elusive quintessential element that is captured in the notion of identity.
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