The Student Room Group
Reply 1
equivocal language refers to analogies that use the same term in a completely different sense so yeah, you're right with that analogy if you're using a completely different kind of loyal to your wife than to your dog.

However, Aquinas could also use that analogy in his analogy of proportion- it's the same thing but loyal is much greater in the wife than in the dog and in God much more so than the wife

And his analogy of attribution- God created everything good therefore anything good we can attribute to God- so loyal can be described to God because loyal is originally attributed to God

does that make sense? Hope so and hope this helps

Good luck for tomorrow, I'm trying to revise New Testament :biggrin: