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Analogy Reviewed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Patrick J. Sherry
Affiliation:
University of Lancaster

Abstract

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1976

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References

1 Palmer, Humphrey, Analogy (Macmillan, London, 1973)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Burrell, David, Analogy and Philosophical Language (Yale University Press, New Haven London, 1973)Google Scholar.

2 La doctrine de I'analogie de l'être d'après Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Louvain, 1963), p. 47Google Scholar.

3 Fr Bochenski has drawn attention to the fact that the term ‘systematic ambiguity’, coined by Russell and Whitehead, is an exact translation of the mediaeval aequivocatio a consilio: see ‘On Analogy’, in Menne, A. (ed.), Logico- Philosophical Studies (Dordrecht, 1962), p. 104CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 An Irrelevance of Omnipotence’, Philosophy, 48 (186), Oct. 1973, 333Google Scholar.