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In his De nominum analogia, Cajetan introduced a spurious distinction between analogy of attribution and analogy of proportionality that is not found in Aquinas's writings or anywhere else. Cajetan's mistake became a commonplace and it is still uncritically accepted today. In Aquinas and Analogy, Ralph McInerny carefully traces the source of the confusion to Cajetan's misunderstanding of a text from Aquinas's commentary on the Sentences and shows how unwarranted and how misleading that distincti
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- Author
- Ralph M. McInerny
- Publisher
- Catholic University of America Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813208480
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-16
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