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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
A proportional similarity. Most theological discussion of analogy has been concerned with analogical predication, a mode of predication in which
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The doctrine of analogy was discussed in medieval *logic, *metaphysics, and theology. Medieval theories of analogy ultimately stem
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
Analogies, much employed in the Bible, are a means of reasoning by the use of parallel cases, and ‘analogy’ is
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Alexander Kazhdan and Michael W. Tkacz
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(ἀναλογία, lit. “proportion” or “resemblance”) was considered in antiquity, primarily by Aristotle, as a mode of predication using a term that is neither univocal nor equivocal but ...
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R. H. Robins
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
were the titles of two themes in the investigation of the Greek and Latin languages in the classical era. They turned on the question, to what extent can regularity (...
ancient linguistics
1. Linguistics arose in western antiquity from two rather different sources: philosophical debate on the origin and nature of language, and the practical requirements of textual criticism and the ...
anthropomorphism
The representation of Gods, or nature, or non-human animals, as having human form, or as having human thoughts and intentions. Sometimes this is avowedly metaphorical, the problem being to understand ...
Apollonius (13)
Son of Mnesitheus, nicknamed Dyscolus, of Alexandria (1) (2nd c. ad). Of his life little is known; apart from a short visit to Rome, he did not leave Alexandria, and ...
apophatic theology
A way of approaching God by denying that any of our concepts can be properly affirmed of Him. It is contrasted with affirmative and symbolic theology. The soul rejects all ideas and images of God and ...
Crates
Of Mallus, son of Timocrates, was a contemporary of Demetrius (12) of Scepsis (Strabo 14. 676) and Aristarchus (2). He visited Rome as envoy of Attalus II of Pergamum, probably ...
De analogia
Caesar's lost treatise inspired by the teaching of Antonius Gnipho, written on a journey across the Alps (55 or 54 bc) and dedicated to Cicero. It defended the principle of ...
direct historical approach
[Th]A methodology developed in the USA during the 1930s by W. D. Strong and others whereby knowledge relating to historical periods is extended back into earlier times. This involves taking a site ...
Docta Ignorantia
(‘Learned Ignorance’)Treatise by Nicholas of Cusa (1440). It links reflection on the limitations of cognition or perception with Pseudo-Dionysius’ mystical theology: because finite minds cannot grasp ...
Herodian
Son of Apollonius (13) Dyscolus, of Alexandria (1), grammarian at Rome under M. Aurelius. He wrote works on the accentuation of the Iliad and Odyssey, and of Attic. These he ...
Laevius
Reasonably identified with a Laevius Melissus mentioned by Suetonius De grammaticis 3=fr. 31 Courtney, wrote at least six books of Erotopaegnia, playful lyrics on amatory themes, probably early in ...
ontology
The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. Recorded from the early 18th century, the word comes from modern Latin ontologia, from Greek ōn, ont− ‘being’, + the suffix −logy denoting ...
Parmeniscus
Pupil of Aristarchus (2) and defender of his texts against Crates (3) of Mallos, wrote Πρὸς Κράτητα, Περὶ ἀνα-λογίας, ‘against Crates’; ‘on analogy’ (recognizing eight noun declensions), and ...
Philemon
Of Athens (c.ad 200), an Atticist grammarian, wrote Σύμμικτα (‘miscellanea’) and Περὶ Ἀττικη̑ς ἀντιλογίας (? ἀναλογίας) τη̑ς ἐν ται̑ς λέξεσιν, a linguistic work on contradiction or perhaps analogy, ...
Pliny the Elder
(ad 23/4–79),Gaius Plīnius Secundus, prominent Roman equestrian, from Cōmum in Gallia Cisalpina (see gaul (cisalpine) ), and uncle of Pliny the Younger, best known as the author of the 37‐book ...
Ptolemaeus Pindarion
Grammarian (2nd cent. bc), pupil of Aristarchus (2). He wrote a number of worker on Homer, and sometimes disagreed with his master on matter of textual criticism. He also concerned ...
