Studia Neoaristotelica

Volume 3, Issue 1, 2006

A Journal of Analytic Scholasticism

Lukáš Novák
Pages 17-27

The Scotist Theory of Univocity
A Journal of Analytic Scholasticism

The article explains the notion of univocity in line with the mature Scotistic doctrine, which plays so crucial a role in the Scotistic rejection of analogy as a middle ground between univocity and pure equivocity. Since univocity of a concept is found to consist in its perfect unity, and the perfect unity of a concept is achieved by means of perfect abstraction, the notion of this so-called abstraction by precision is made clear and contrasted with the so-called abstraction by confusion, by means of which analogical concepts are supposed to be formed by the Thomists.

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