THE LOGIC OF ANALOGY

Table of Contents

Preface

I. THE PROBLEM OF ANALOGY

• 1. Cajetan on Analogy
  
  • (a) De nominum analogia
    
    • (1) Analogy of Inequality
      
    • (2) Analogy of Attribution
      
    • (3) Analogy of Proportionality
      
  • (b) The Commentary on Summa theologiae
    
• 2. Sylvester of Ferrara
  

II. LOGIC AND ANALOGY

III. THE NATURE OF LOGIC

• 1. Beings of Reason and the Subject of Logic
  
• 2. The Logical and Real Orders
  

IV. THE SIGNIFICATION OF NAMES

• 1. Logic and Naming
  
• 2. Sign and Signification
  
• 3. The Imposition of Names
  
• 4. Modus signicandi; res significata
  
• 5. Ratio quam significat nomen
  
• 6. Signification and Supposition
  

V. THE ANALOGY OF NAMES

• 1. Things Named Equivocally
  
• 2. Things Named Univocally
  
• 3. Things Named Analogically
  

VI. THE DIVISION OF ANALOGY

• 1.Multorum ad unum, Unius ad alterum
  
• 2. Proportion and Proportionality
  
• 3. Extrinsic Denomination and Analogous Names
  
• 4. Aliquid dicitur secundum analogiam tripliciter
  
  • (a) Secundum intentionem, non secundum esse
    
  • (b) Secundum esse, non secundum intentionem
    
    • (1) Genus logice loquendo
      
    • (2) Genus physice loquendo
      
    • (3) Univocal or analogous?
      
    • (4) Who is the logicus?
      
  • (c) Secundum intentionem, secundum esse
    
• 5. Summary
  

VII. THE ANALOGICAL CAUSE

• 1. Diversus modus existendi impedit univocationem
  
• 2. Predication and Causality
  
• 3. Primum in aliquo genere
  

VIII. KNOWLEDGE AND ANALOGY

• 1. Justice and Analogy
  
• 2. Proportion and Quantity
  
• 3. Our Knowledge of Prime Matter
  
• 4. Proportionality, Metaphor, Analogous Names
  

IX. THE DIVINE NAMES

• 1. Can God be Named by Us?
  
• 2. Why Many Divine Names?
  
• 3. Omne nomen cum defectu est
  
• 4. Ordo nominis, ordo rerum
  

CONCLUDING

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