Aristotle's Formal Identity of Intellect and Object: A Solution to the Problem of Modal Epistemology. Issue 1 (April 2019) - Koons, Robert C.
Abstract : In De Anima Book III, Aristotle subscribed to a theory of formal identity between the human mind and the extra-mental objects of our understanding. This has been one of the most controversial features of Aristotelian metaphysics of the mind. I offer here a defense of the Formal Identity Thesis, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths.