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Comment author: [deleted] 04 June 2012 07:17:11PM 8 points [-]

Not a fallacy when designing.

Identity is not a feature of the world to be understood. It is a feature of a cognitive system to be designed.

I suppose you could ask empirical questions about what form identity actually takes in the human mind, but Strange's comment is referring to instrumental usefulness of a design.