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).
"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").
Then p is equivalent to the conjunction of p and q, and so the thought p is identical to the thought p and q.
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.
Type identity about thoughts, for example, would imply that the property of thinking about the square root of two is identical with some physical property.
Alternatively, someone who took the hybrid line might prefer to give it a Fregean spin, saying that the entities with which true Fregean Thoughts were identical were the genuine facts, and that the corresponding entities at the level of reference that true Russellian propositions were identical with were not facts as such, but fact-like correlates of some sort.
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.
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.
