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| Things are equivocally named, when they have the name only in common,
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| the definition (or statement of essence) corresponding with the name
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| being different.  For instance, while a man and a portrait can properly
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| both be called "animals" [Greek 'zõon' means 'living' or 'true to life'],
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| these are equivocally named.  For they have the name only in common,
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| the definitions (or statements of essence) corresponding with the name
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| being different.  For if you are asked to define what the being an animal
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| means in the case of the man and the portrait, you give in either case
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| a definition appropriate to that case alone.  ("Categories", p. 13).
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| Aristotle, "The Categories", in 'Aristotle, Volume 1',
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| Translated by H.P. Cooke & H. Tredennick, Loeb Classics,
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| William Heinemann Ltd, London, UK, 1938.
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I would like to introduce a concept that I find to be of
 
I would like to introduce a concept that I find to be of
 
use in discussing the problems of hypostatic abstraction,
 
use in discussing the problems of hypostatic abstraction,
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