Sentence examples for univocal terms from inspiring English sources

Reference to past or future objects will require the extension of univocal terms by means of analogy or metaphor.

H.A. Wolfson has presented evidence for Aristotle's recognition of a type of term intermediate between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority.

As translated by Boethius, Aristotle introduced the distinction between univocal and equivocal terms by claiming that whereas univocal terms were subordinated to one substantiae ratio, equivocal terms were subordinated to more than one substantiae ratio.

Analogical terms were said to be intermediaries between equivocal and univocal terms, and the standard view was that analogical terms were intermediary between chance equivocals and univocals, and hence that they were to be identified with deliberate equivocals.

According to the common interpretation of the opening passage of the Categories, equivocal terms are correlated with more than one concept and refer to a multiplicity of things sharing different natures, whereas univocal terms are correlated with only one concept and refer to a multiplicity of things sharing one and the same nature.

He then argued that 'being' (ens) was a univocal term subordinated to a single univocal concept.

However, if several men were called John because they were born on the Feast of St. John, the name 'John' should be regarded as a univocal term.

It is easy to mistake sense generality for ambiguity, as often the extension of a univocal term can break up into two or more distinct salient categories.

Those reservations aside, however, the natural similarity in function of subject and predicate in picking out varying classes of things while remaining a univocal term, led most authors to extend the notion of supposition to all terms.

Except for Roger Bacon, who thought of proper names as constantly receiving new impositions (see §7), the reason had to do with the definition of a univocal term as involving a concept or a nature predicable, at least in principle, of several individuals.

It also gives an indication of how difficult in practice it is to find univocality violations in the GO, and further motivates the need for computational tools to generate non-univocal term candidates.