[Inquiry] Categories As Equivocation Resolvers

[Jon Awbrey]

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CAER.  Note 1

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Da Capo ---

| Things are equivocally named, when they have the name only in common,
| the definition (or statement of essence) corresponding with the name
| being different.  For instance, while a man and a portrait can properly
| both be called "animals" ('zôo'), these are equivocally named.  For they
| have the name only in common, the definitions (or statements of essence)
| corresponding with the name being different.  For if you are asked to
| define what the being an animal means in the case of the man and the
| portrait, you give in either case a definition appropriate to that
| case alone.
|
| Things are univocally named, when not only they bear the same name
| but the name means the same in each case -- has the same definition
| corresponding.  Thus a man and an ox are called "animals".  The name
| is the same in both cases;  so also the statement of essence.  For
| if you are asked what is meant by their both of them being called
| "animals", you give that particular name in both cases the same
| definition.
|
| Aristotle, Categories, 1. 1a.1-12.
|
| Translator's Note.  'Zôon' in Greek had two meanings,
| that is to say, "living creature", and, secondly, a
| figure or image in painting, embroidery, sculpture.
| We have no ambiguous noun.  However, we use the
| word "living" of portraits to mean "true to life".
|
| Aristotle, "The Categories", Harold P. Cooke (trans.),
| pp. 12-109 in 'Aristotle, Volume 1', Loeb Classics,
| William Heinemann Ltd, London, UK, 1938.

Zoon, Zoon, Zoon ...

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