By Ralf M. W. Stammberger
The research of analogy has goals. First to determine how analogical predication works typically after which, moment, to determine how those findings can then be utilized to the categorical box of non secular languages approximately God. during this learn the matter of analogy is traced throughout the heritage of philosophy and theology starting from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. exact awareness is then given to the talk within the anglo-saxon context of the twentieth century. eventually the writer means that glossy theories of that means (especially through Hilary Putnam) make the conventional method of the matter of analogy doubtful because it presupposes that that means might be verified leaving apart the context of a be aware.
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