IN ANALOGY 1. Intropucrory. The present paper is an attempt, to clear up some of the problems involved in the traditional theory of analogy as presented by the Thomistic school. The two main ideas behind the formal developments offered here are: (1) analogy is an important discovery, worthy of a thorough examination and further development, (2) contemporary mathematical logic supplies excellent tools for such work. ‘This paper is, as far as the author knows, the first of its kinds * it deals with a difficult subject in a sketchy way; what it con- tains is, therefore, not meant to be definitive truths, but rather proposals for discussion. ‘The approach to the problems of analogy used here is the semantic one. This is not the only method, but it would seem to be both the most convenient and the most traditional. As a matter of fact, it is difficult to see how equivocity, which is and must be treated as a relation of the same type as analogy, can be considered except by the semantic method. Also, St. Thomas Aquinas examined analogy in his question concerning divine names and the title of Cajetan’s classical work is “ De Nominum Analogia.” It will be taken for granted that the reader has a good knowledge of classical texts of St. Thomas and Cajetan, and of the content of the Principia Mathematica; * no reference “The author is, however, indebted to the lute Fr. Jan Salamucha and to J. Fr. Drewnowski who were the frst to apply recent Formal Logie to Thomistie problems. ‘The present paper may be considered as an attempt to formalize some of the ions expressed by them. Cl. Myil katolicka wobec Logiki wzpétezesne} (Polish ‘he Catholic Thought and Contemporary Logic), Poznan 1987 (with French abstracts) and J. Fr. Drewnowski, Zerys programu filozofcenego (Polish = A sketch of # Philosophie Programme), Praeglad Filoaoficany, 87, 1948, $-98, 160-181, 262-202, especially pp. 95-98. (There is a French account of this important work in Studia Philosophica (Lwow) I, 1085, 461-454. A. N. Whitehead and B, Russell, Principia Mathematica, ad ed., Cambridge 1925-1987. 424 Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company Copyright (¢) Thomist Press