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Analogy   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
120 words

A proportional similarity. Most theological discussion of analogy has been concerned with analogical predication, a mode of predication in which

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analogy   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
277 words

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.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Religion
Length:
172 words

Analogies, much employed in the Bible, are a means of reasoning by the use of parallel cases, and ‘analogy’ is

Analogy

Analogy   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan and Michael W. Tkacz

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
233 words
(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 ... More
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analogy and   Reference library

R. H. Robins

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

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Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
383 words

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 (...

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