univocal

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Secondly, and related to the first point quite by necessity, 'compassion' itself is neither diachronically nor synchronically univocal - Allah's compassion is quite different from Gutama's is again distinct from YHWH's and Jesus's [oh, I've gone and done it now] which couldn't be more different from that of Chuang-tzu's ... you get, I trust, the idea.

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  1. adjective Having only one meaning; unambiguous.
  2. noun A word or term having only one meaning.

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  • These textual gestures, along with other, similar destabilisations throughout the early chapters, are consonant with a conception of capitalism as a contradictory social form that generates conflictual possibilities for collective practice: a univocal text would not be adequate to the multivalent qualitative characteristics of the social practices it analyses. —  Roughtheory.org
  • We often naively think that normal consciousness is univocal. —  Talking Philosophy
  • That latter lack of care is also reflected in the careless use of 'Nominalist' as though it were a univocal term. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • What's more, even David Hart has noted that Duns Scotus posits not so much univocity of being, as a univocal concept of being within which a real analogy [as opposed to a logical one merely] fits not so snugly but fits nonetheless. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • DFW's Sentence Part of the answer to why conservative talk radio works so well might be that extreme conservatism provides a neat, clear, univocal template with which to organize one's opinions and responses to the world. —  Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
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  1. From Late Latin ūnivocus : Latin ūni-, uni- + Latin vocāre, to say; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Cf. French univoque = Spanish univoco = Portuguese Italian univoco; from Late Latin univocus, having but one meaning, from Latin unus, one, + vox (voc-), voice, meaning: see vocal.
 

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