Equivocality: a discussion of sommers' views
CLAIMS that a predicate is equivocal are sometimes based on its being applicable to different sorts of thing. Aristotle, for instance, argues in his Metaplhysics that 'to be' must have as many senses as there are categories, since 'is' is applied to things of all kinds; Allen', that 'red' must have a different sense when applied to particulars from its sense when applied to universals. The criterion of equivocality implicit in such claims is: