But it was stated above that the word 'univocal' was applied to those things which had both name and definition in common. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
Such a mode of causality is called ˜univocal causality™. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
Such motivation need not be self-conscious, or even univocal. From Wordnik.com. [Virtue Epistemology] Reference
This is apparent in the case of agents which are not univocal. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The concept of legal responsibility is not univocal in meaning. From Wordnik.com. [LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY] Reference
Pantheism need not be, any more than theism needs to be, a univocal view. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism] Reference
He does add that “univocal” has the advantage of being a positive term. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Aristotle's Categories] Reference
This was the ability of a univocal appellative noun to name different things. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
Such knowledge is given through univocal concepts, espe - cially that of being. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Virtually the whole of Illinois officialdom is now univocal in advising resignation. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago 360] Reference
'Jam-pot,' 'hydrogen' are examples of univocal terms; 'pipe' and 'suit' of equivocal. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But feminists are not univocal in their views about the role of emotion in moral theory. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Moral Psychology] Reference
This common ascription is midway between merely equivocal and purely univocal ascription. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
While Wilde, 2000 asserts, then, that univocal causality is subsumed in analogical causality. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
For Scotus, however, being is a univocal concept only when abstracted from all its modalities. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Univocation is the signification of a univocal word, described in the Fallacie Parvipontane as. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
He then argued that ˜being™ (ens) was a univocal term subordinated to a single univocal concept. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
The Enlightenment was of course not univocal in its comparatively permissive attitudes toward suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Suicide] Reference
But are univocal spacetime coincidences real because, thanks to their invariance, they are observable?. From Wordnik.com. [Einstein's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Their relation is precisely what Eckhart takes advantage of in developing his theory of univocal causality. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
The question of whether causation can be reduced to probabilities is thus less univocal than it might appear. From Wordnik.com. [Probabilistic Causation] Reference
An identification of “taste” and “judgment” (of beauty) is frequent, but neither universal nor univocal. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is univocal for the human intellect, since at this initial level the distinction is hidden from our comprehension. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference
Those statements that refer to the physically real therefore do not founder on any univocal coordinate transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Einstein's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Dougherty from MA 48:2, Spring 2006 - 05/20/08 In common usage, the word, “democracy,” is far from a univocal term. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-18] Reference
Exam - ples of such univocal concepts are “being” and the transcendental properties of being such as “goodness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Another example of univocal causality as conceived by Eckhart is found in the relation between justice and the just man. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
Different though they will be, each people's theoretical construction of an event ontology would be expected to be univocal. From Wordnik.com. [Einstein's Philosophy of Science] Reference
With this statement, Eckhart commends to our attention the paradigm of univocal co-relationality in the just man and justice. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
But it was stated above that the word ‘univocal’ was applied to those things which had both name and definition in common. From Wordnik.com. [Categories] Reference
The equivocal term is thus interpreted by our intellect as an univocal term, and this gives rise to a peculiar form of analogy. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference
Although this contention may not meet with univocal consent, there is no doubt about the practical significance of computer simulations. From Wordnik.com. [Models in Science] Reference
Walter Burley claimed that both the first and the second kinds of analogical term could properly be regarded as univocal in a wide sense. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Aristotle's Categories] Reference
The former holds that the mettle of physics and philosophy demands that we find a precise, rigorous and univocal definition of singularity. From Wordnik.com. [Singularities and Black Holes] Reference
The breakthrough that Eckhart attains through his theory of univocal causality is exemplified by the relation between thinking and thought. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
The question is this: Do such univocal coincidences play such a privileged role because of their reality or because of their observability. From Wordnik.com. [Einstein's Philosophy of Science] Reference
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