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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.
Archive 2008-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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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.
Jakobson, meet Derrida Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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Even for those within the Thomistic tradition, Scotus 'arguments about the univocity of ˜being™ had to be taken seriously.
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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He argued that it was sufficient for univocity that contradiction would arise when the term was affirmed and denied of the same thing.
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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In univocity, as Deleuze reads Spinoza, the single sense of Being frees a charge of difference throughout all that is.
Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008
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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.
The why Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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The doctrine of univocity rests in part on the claim that "[t] he difference between God and creatures, at least with regard to God's possession of the pure perfections, is ultimately one of degree" (Cross [1999], 39).
John Duns Scotus Williams, Thomas 2007
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Why should being, conceived of as univocity or immanence, receive the name of "life"?
Archive 2007-11-01 enowning 2007
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Why should being, conceived of as univocity or immanence, receive the name of "life"?
enowning enowning 2007
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