Sentence examples for equivocal name from inspiring English sources

"Jamba Juice is 'The Man?' " For a guy with a corner juice shop with an equivocal name and an unfortunately shaped logo (an apple and an orange flanking a banana), it is.

For a long period of time the project was entitled Trolley Blues; Cristian Nemescu gave up this title, worrying that there might be a large discrepancy between the equivocal name and the actual, very direct content of the movie.

Agreement is nominal when the same name is predicated of wholly different things, without there being any objective basis for the application of the common name; such is the case of equivocal names.

We identified 411 unique angiosperm families by checking the 413 families recognized by the Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG III) [ 47] against the APG III website [ 48, 49] (two were found to have equivocal names, see Additional file 1).

Living in the Chelsea hotel, he bedded the doomed Janis Joplin and later hymned her in the famous – and equivocal – song of the same name.

Both Albert and Paul agreed in opposition to Marsilius that a proper name could be equivocal without being called univocal when used of one person.

An opposing view was presented by Roger Bacon, who held that proper names were radically equivocal because they were subject to constant reimposition.

In his commentary on the Categories, Paul of Venice claimed that some names were purely equivocal, and he instanced 'Aristotle' and 'Plato'Plato

He said that to regard the name 'Socrates' as an equivocal term which refers to a succession of individuals is a denial of common speech and of the common sense of the wise men who originally gave terms their signification.

While almost everyone except Paul of Venice agreed that proper names must always be equivocal when used of two different people, not everyone wanted to say that they were univocal when used of the same person.

Those things are deliberate equivocals which have distinct natures but the same name, and are subordinated to different but correlated concepts.