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Example sentences for "univocal"

Lexicographically close words:
universitas; universities; university; universo; universum; unjointed; unjudged; unjust; unjustifiable; unjustifiably
  1. On the contrary, The knowledge of Christ we are now speaking about was univocal with our knowledge, even as His soul was of the same species as ours.

  2. But the power of a non-univocal agent does not wholly manifest itself in the production of its effect: as, for example, the power of the sun does not wholly manifest itself in the production of an animal generated from putrefaction.

  3. However, for the generation of perfect animals the universal agent does not suffice, but a proper agent is required, in the shape of a univocal generator.

  4. And in this way some things are said of God and creatures analogically, and not in a purely equivocal nor in a purely univocal sense.

  5. Although equivocal predications must be reduced to univocal, still in actions, the non-univocal agent must precede the univocal agent.

  6. In a third way some things are said to be alike which communicate in the same form, but not according to the same formality; as we see in non-univocal agents.

  7. But the distance of some creatures makes any univocal predication of them impossible, as in the case of those things which are not in the same genus.

  8. The power of a univocal agent is wholly manifested in its effect.

  9. Now it is clear that God is not a univocal agent.

  10. Now the likeness of an effect in the univocal cause is found uniformly; but in the equivocal cause it is found more excellently, as, heat is in the sun more excellently than it is in fire.

  11. Therefore it seems that the first agent to which all other agents are reduced, is an univocal agent: and thus what is said of God and creatures, is predicated univocally.

  12. Names abused infer not the things signified by an univocal term.

  13. This univocal association must be maintained over time.

  14. Systems of univocal signs participate in the production of ideas only to a small degree.

  15. Sometimes, indeed, a respondent may pretend that an univocal word is equivocal, or that an equivocal word is univocal, in the course of the debate.

  16. Again, the generic term and the specific term ought to be univocal in signification.

  17. Such a definition, pretending to fit all, will in reality fit none; nothing but an univocal term can come under one and the same definition.

  18. Aristotle has thus indicated, at considerable length, the points to be looked for when we are examining whether a term is univocal or equivocal.

  19. If you ask a dialectical question in plain and univocal language, the respondent is bound to answer Yes or No.

  20. Ens is a multivocal word, neither strictly univocal nor altogether equivocal.

  21. The most difficult of all to impugn are definitions framed in vague and unintelligible terms, where you do not know whether they are univocal or equivocal, literal or metaphorical.

  22. A Syllogism contains three, and no more, distinct univocal terms.

  23. Univocal and Equivocal Terms 41 Connotation determined by the suppositio (p.

  24. God and creatures, they admit that the reality corresponding to this univocal concept is totally different in God and in creatures: that God differs by all that He is from creatures, and they by all that they are from Him.

  25. It is not simply one, for this would yield univocal predication; nor is it simply manifold, for this would give equivocal predication.

  26. These paragraphs will have shown with sufficient clearness why we should regard being not as an univocal but as an analogical concept, when referred to God and creatures, or to substance and accident.

  27. Making putrifactive generations, correspondent unto seminal productions, and conceiving in equivocal effects and univocal conformity unto the efficient.

  28. Univocal Equivocal according to number of things involved in the name.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "univocal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.