Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy (Dr. Alex Plato) | Ep. 371
Pints With Aquinas
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Is There a Concept That Bridges That?
Scotus made up a new idea in the history of philosophy, which is I call it a quasi-univocal concept. So you can talk about what wisdom is sort of in a lexical definition, let's say, knowing all the important stuff. And so we recognize it's not a nivocal language that we're using when we say Socrates and God are wise. If everything we say about God is equivocal, then we can literally know no things about God.
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