The ‘sameness’ so easily indicated in language is nearly never present in the things language points at, and declares equivalent. What is equivalent is the class or type; but these are generalizations, and exclude the local novelty of any given object, being or situation on purpose. Two apples are not the same. In fact, abstract apples (apples that exist only in language) are not even apples… just words…

Is this word the same word as this word? No, because they have different positions in the sentence and the mind that reads the first has been transformed by so doing…