Sentence examples for equivocal names from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

In the twelfth century, Abelard pointed out at some length in his Dialectica that Socrates is the name of an individual substance and that the accidents associated with him by some description cannot enter into the imposition of the signification of the name, else the name would be equivocal through time.

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

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.

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.

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.

This suggested to at least some authors that proper names need not be regarded as chance equivocals.