Studies in Analogy

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I: The "Ratio Communis" of the Analogous Name
• I. Texts which reject a ratio communis
• II. Texts which imply a ratio communis
• III. The analogy of names
• 1. The Imposition of Names
• 2. Id a quo nomen imponitur
• 3. Ways of Signifying
• 4. Ways of Being Named
• 5. The Extension of the Name
• IV. Some analogous names
• 1. "Virtue" as Analogous Name
• 2. "Passion" as Analogous Name
• 3. "Word" as Analogous Word
• V. Analogy and Metaphorical Usage
• VI. Being is not a Genus
• 1. Species cannot be Predicated of Difference
• 2. Genus cannot be Predicated of Difference
• 3. Genus and Inequality
• 4. Aside on "Ens commune"
• VII. Resolution and Conclusion
• Chapter II: Metaphor and Analogy
• I. Cajetan on metaphor
• II. Analogy vs. Metaphor
• III. Ratio Propria non invenitur nisi in uno
• IV. The signification of names
• V. Ratio communis and ratio propria
• VI. Proprie, Communiter, Metaphorice
• VII. Concluding summary
• Chapter III: Metaphor and fundamental ontology
• Chapter IV: "Analogy" is analogous
• Chapter V: Reply to a Critic
• I. Cajetan and Intrinsic and Extrinsic denomination
• II. Professor Beach as exegete
• III. Professor Beach's confusion of the Logical and Real
• Chapter VI: Is the term "soul" analogous?
• Appendix

Dedication

Sororibus Fratbribusque Meis:
Roger, Raymond, Austin, Dennis,
Mary Margaret, Theresa, Maurice, Stephen

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