Aquinas's doctrine of analogical predication allows God to instantiate categories like 'substance' or 'being' in an eminent, non-univocal mode without reduction to creaturely membership.
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A mode of predication in which a term applied to God has a sense that is neither univocal with nor purely equivocal to its creaturely use; instead, the creaturely property preexists in God in a higher mode.
being(Aristotle's rejection of being as a genus)
The class that contains all and only things that exist; proposed candidate for a highest kind.
instantiate(as used in metaphysics)
To be a concrete example of something, or to have and display a particular property or category.
non-univocal(The author's characterization of how 'good' actually functions)
A term is non-univocal when its meaning or the property it picks out varies across different contexts of application, making its paraphrases non-interchangeable
substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence
univocal(Contrasted with homonymy in Aristotle's predication theory)
A term applied in the same sense across all its predications.