HT: BHT There's also an interesting post on Scotus on univocity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
Why should being, conceived of as univocity or immanence, receive the name of "life"?. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
If being is a reality, it is then clear that it is impossible to affirm its univocity. From Wordnik.com. [John Wyclif] Reference
Central to his rejection of univocity of being is his denial that it is a supreme genus. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey of Fontaines] Reference
In univocity, as Deleuze reads Spinoza, the single sense of Being frees a charge of difference throughout all that is. From Wordnik.com. [Gilles Deleuze] Reference
Even for those within the Thomistic tradition, Scotus 'arguments about the univocity of ˜being™ had to be taken seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
He argued that it was sufficient for univocity that contradiction would arise when the term was affirmed and denied of the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
Contrary to what Clouser later claims, it is the univocity theorist, not the analogy theorist, who holds that creatures have uncreated properties. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Mohapatra Says: May 17th, 2007 at 11:58 pm The “univocity” of Being assuming “thoughts in the concrete are made of the same stuff as things are” is not the whole story. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
I am not qualified to say whether their treatment of, for example, Duns Scotus and the univocity of being is either fair or credible, but their overall story is one that I find compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Wittgenstein and Radical Orthodoxy] Reference
Rather than commit to defending mathematical realism by means of ontological univocity, then, some philosophers would rather be mathematical anti-realists and leave the broader ontological issue open. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Even though the former ia first-level use of ˜disappears™ and the latter a second-level one, however, there is at least some connection between their senses, albeit not one of even partial univocity. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
He destines them to translation, he subjects them to the law of a translation both necessary and impossible; in a stroke with his translatable-untranslatadble name he delivers a universal reason (it will not longer be subject to the rule of a particular nation), but he simultaneously limits its very universality: forbidden transparency, impossible univocity. From Wordnik.com. [Jakobson, meet Derrida] Reference
Among these is the Ontological Principle or the univocity of being. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Remember one of Scotus's arguments for univocity. From Wordnik.com. [John Duns Scotus] Reference
However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
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