The Role of Focus in Aquinas’s Doctrine of Analogy

Scholars of Aquinas’s doctrine of analogy have traditionally devoted their attention to the question of which kind of analogy, that of proportionality or that of attribution, is the most relevant for Aquinas. However, a closer study of some of Aquinas’s crucial texts reveals that there are prior and...

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Main Author: Donato, Antonio 1979- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2003
In: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2003, Volume: 77, Pages: 289-301
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