Only one {45}possessing that sensitivity can discern in someone else's personality the quality of being a friend, or not being one but only another person. Aristotle compares the mind in this respect with a light illuminating an object, "making it" visible for whomever possesses that light: the mind confers, simultaneously, "visibility" on the object and "capacity" to see on the man; it makes, simultaneously, of the former a noema and of the latter a noesis.
Sólo quien {45} posee aquella sensibilidad puede descubrir en tal personal determinada "al" amigo, o a quien "no lo es", sino que es un simple "otro". Aristóteles compara, por esto, la mente con una luz que ilumina al objeto, "haciéndolo" visible para quien lo posee: la mente confiere, a la vez, "visibilidad" al objeto y "capacidad" de ver al hombre; hace, a la vez, de aquél un nóêma, y de éste una noesis.