analogy of meaning VS. analogy of being

Posted On March 23, 2024

Different list that doesn’t map well to the one below:

• Aquinas: 3 Types of Analogy.
  • Analogy of Meaning (analogia nominum).
  • Analogy of Reason (analogia rationis).
  • Analogy of Being (analogia entis).

Aquinas held that there were two broad types of analogical terms (mostly, I think, predicate terms, but I’m still learning):

• (1) predicates analogous according to meaning (secundum intentionem) and
• (2) predicates analogous according to being (secundum esse).

But since analogy can be an alloy of these two types, Aquinas distinguished between three combinations of these two types of analogous predicates:

(1) Analogy according to meaning only.

• Secundum intentionem but not secundum esse.

(2) Analogy according to being only.

• Secundum esse but not secundum intentionem.

(3) Analogy according to both meaning & being.

• Secundum intentionem et secundum esse.

Analogy of meaning maps roughly to what Ross calls denomination or relational naming. (See the glossary entries for denomination and analogy of attribution.)

 

TBD: Aquinas’s 2nd & 3rd types of analogy. See Oliva Blanchette!!!