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The Analogy of Names

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We are now in a position to examine the doctrine of the analogy of names. Since, as we have already pointed out, the analogy of names is for St Thomas a kind of equivocation, it will be well to examine in some detail the logical doctrine of equivocation and univocation. These matters are discussed at the outset of the Categories and they are numbered among the considerations which have come to be called the antepredicaments.

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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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McInerny, R.M. (1971). The Analogy of Names. In: The Logic of Analogy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2960-5_5

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