Robert Dewar has become equivocal about these things, having bought a second house in the country, with a paddock and 'pair of ponies to go with the pair of daughters'.
Because it seems to me that the bottom line of 21st-century politics is that you can't be embarrassed or equivocal about the things you believe.
Generic equivocals are those things which share the same generic nature in the same way, but have distinct specific natures of different absolute value (In Cat., cap. de aequivocis, fol. 70r).
But after an intensive lobbying campaign against the changes by big business and deep opposition from senior cabinet ministers, his comments on Tuesday were much more equivocal, emphasising all the things the government had already done for small business.
It's a mysterious, slippery thing, of equivocal value — even damaging to the innocent one — and yet indispensable somehow, to the perpetuation of value in the human community.
What exactly might it mean to have an "unalienable right" to "the pursuit of happiness", given that it is fairly obvious that the pursuit of happiness is so morally equivocal – could be, among other things, a threat to the society that promoted it?
Those things are deliberate equivocals which have distinct natures but the same name, and are subordinated to different but correlated concepts.
Equivocals by chance are those things to which it just happens that they have the same name, but with different meanings and/or reasons for imposing the name.
For Italy things are considerably more equivocal.
One crucial text is found in Metaphysics 4.2 (1003a33–35): "There are many senses (multis modis) in which being (ens) can be said, but they are related to one central point (ad unum), one definite kind of thing, and are not equivocal.
