Causes individuals presuppose causes species, univocal wholly equivoca — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation

Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation Thomas Aquinas

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Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation

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