Concept

Univocity of being

Overview

Univocity of being is the idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things. It is associated with the doctrines of the Scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus.

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Philosophers who discussed Univocity of being

• Gilles Deleuze
• Baruch Spinoza
• Duns Scotus
• Paul of Venice
• William Desmond (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Gilles Deleuze
• Monism
• Thomas Aquinas
• Nature
• Ontology
• Philosophical pluralism
• Process philosophy
• Paradox
• Substance theory
• Baruch Spinoza
• Duns Scotus
• Cosmos
• Scholasticism
• God

Place in the tradition

Part of Ontology.

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