Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics Gamma treat 'being' as said in many ways but never as a property superadded to a subject, making Avicenna's univocal existential operator a post-Aristotelian importation.
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Metaphysics Gamma(another foundational Aristotelian text being referenced)
A section of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Book Gamma) that discusses the nature of being and existence itself.
Post-Aristotelian importation(describes the relationship between Avicenna's ideas and Aristotle's)
An idea or approach that came later than Aristotle's time and was brought into philosophy afterward, rather than being part of his original thinking.
Said in many ways(in metaphysics)
A phrase meaning the same word can be used to describe different types of things in different senses—like how 'healthy' can describe a person, food, or even a complexion.
Superadded to a subject(describes how 'being' should NOT be understood according to Aristotle)
Added on top of something as an extra feature, rather than being built into its fundamental nature.
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.
categories(Kantian epistemology)
The most basic concepts of objects in general, which are unavoidably employed whenever we think about anything whatsoever
property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
A right to something.
univocal(Contrasted with homonymy in Aristotle's predication theory)
A term applied in the same sense across all its predications.