RE: biunivocity

[James Dick <jdick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,

Doing a (University of Queensland) Library search on the word as a keyword
did not yield any results.

My guess is that it is not a common term.

A search on the word univocity yielded the result below.

Hope that this is some assistance!

James Dick


Author	Sylwanowicz, Michael.
</search/asylwanowicz+michael/-5,-1,0,B/browse> 	
Title	Contingent causality and the foundations of Duns Scotus' metaphysics
/ by Michael Sylwanowicz.	
Publisher	Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, c1996.	
		

ITEM LOCN 	CALL NO. 	STATUS 	
SS&H <http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/index.html> 	B765.D74 S85 1996
</search/cb+++765+d74+s85+1996/-5,-1,,E/browse> 	AVAILABLE	

Descript	viii, 273 p. ; 25 cm.	
Series	Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 51
</search/tstudien+und+texte+zur+geistesgeschichte+des+mittelalters+bd+++
51/-5,-1,0,B/browse> 	
Contents	Pt. 1. Towards a Definition of Contingent Causality. Ch. 1. A
"modal" concept? Ch. 2. The idea of the will: some backgrounds. Ch. 3.
Immediate conditions for the rise of the idea of contingent causality:
towards a definition -- Pt. 2. Contingent Causality and Fundamental
Presuppositions: The Bases of Scotus' Metaphysics. Ch. 4. Choice at an
instant and contingent causality. Ch. 5. The constitution of essence and
perfection. Ch. 6. Perfection as the presence of intrinsic activity and the
basis of its irreducibility.	
Summary	This study challenges the current view that the originality of Duns
Scotus' notion of contingent causality lies in modal logic. It works as an
ontological concept, and so provides a point of entry into the foundations
of Duns Scotus' metaphysics. As one of two basic manifestations of the
active causal power of being, it points to Scotus' underlying ontology,
which can no longer be seen as a failure to attain Aquinas' clarity. We
have a positive alternative, capable of generating the characteristic
Scotist theses: univocity of being, formal distinction, haecceitas, proof
of God's existence from possibility, the producibility of God's ideas.	
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-268) and index.	
Subject	Duns Scotus, John, ca. 1266-1308.
</search/dduns+scotus+john+ca+1266+1308/-5,-1,0,B/browse> 	
	Philosophy, Medieval. </search/dphilosophy+medieval/-5,-1,0,B/browse> 	



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-----Original Message-----
From:	Greg Nowell [SMTP:GN842@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Wednesday, 22 March 2000 5:23 AM
To:	POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT
Subject:	biunivocity

The book I'm translating employs this term but a search
on the 'net shows it to be rare, and apparently an
engineering term.  The MIT dictionary of Economics has
no listing.  I'm wondering if this word counts as a
"common term" or an idiosyncratic usage.  Ventelous
uses it with regard to the simultaneous setting of
income and price levels as a reflection of today's
expectations with regard to tomorrow's consumption.
-gn.

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