The phrase 'identical thought' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an idea or opinion that two or more people share. For example, "John and Jane both had the identical thought that a vacation would be the perfect way to break up their working week."
"Animals don't organize," snorts one of the heavies, who obviously hasn't seen "Chicken Run," in which Mrs. Tweedy utters a nearly identical thought.
But what has followed has been "personally more gratifying," which must have left every viewer of advancing years with an identical thought – if only they could be that lucid, humorous and optimistic, if and when they hit 90.
One day Elan and I were lying on our backs in the shale at the base of the mountain and looking up at the north face, thinking the identical thought ("No f—— way").
Mr C, meanwhile, "has similar or identical thoughts, memories, and personality traits to Caulfield, often using precisely the same or only slightly modified language".
(Note, however, the shift in tense, "…we become aware that we were aware…," which casts doubt on whether these could be identical thoughts. More on this below).
And mere days after that, a 13-year-old boy named Damien Strum read Mahaffey's letter, pronounced his thoughts "identical … to mine," and posted his note to multiple social networks.
Lega Nord, the right-wing political party who support independence for Northern Italy, have spoken out against the likes of Motta, Osvaldo and Camoranesi's presence in Azzurri selections, and many citizens' opinions on oriundi are identical to their thoughts on immigration.
In the Soul, the direction of vision towards the Intellectual-Principle is Wisdom and Prudence, soul-virtues not appropriate to the Supreme where Thinker and Thought are identical.
The first intellect thinks only itself, like the Aristotelian God of Metaphysics Lambda, and in this sense its being and its object of thought are identical.
The Buddhist logico-epistemological enterprise rests on two major viewpoints: (i) the domains of language and conceptual thought are identical; and (ii) direct perception can in fact provide access to the simple, further irreducible, data of experience or the particular as such (the svalakṣaṇa).
The vignette of the person with depression together with suicidal thoughts was identical to the depression vignette in all respects except the suicidal thoughts and was designed to assess how this symptom affected the public's response.
