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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
rfbrownwards commented on the word univocity
Univocity refers to the state or essence of being univocal, meaning that something has only one clear and consistent interpretation or meaning. It implies a lack of ambiguity, ensuring that the message or concept is understood in a single, uniform way.
December 18, 2024