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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings College London and the LMU in Munich, online at www. History of Philosophy.net. Today's episode, Once and for All, Skoda philosophy. century of philosophy by citing a classic philosophical remark.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is.

Those who recall the political debates of the 1990s will have no trouble identifying this as a quote from Bill Clinton.

But historians of philosophy might rather think of a far earlier debate.

Among the diels there was a heated controversy over the meaning of is. Does being in Latin essay have only

one meaning or many different meanings? Usually we have no difficulty answering this sort of question. The word Bill is obviously used with a number

of different meanings. It could be the first name of a former president, the business end of a duck,

or what the waiter hands you at the end of a business lunch.

Aristotle explained at the beginning of his categories, a work on which philosophers from

late Antiquity through the Middle Ages cut their teeth, that words are used equivically when they are applied

with such different meanings.

If a word is used on different occasions with the same meaning, I am using that word

unifically.

Thus, when I apply the word human to Bill Clinton and to Aristotle, I am using it as a

unifical term.

So why did the medieval worry whether the word being is used equivically or unifically?

Most historians of philosophy will tell you that the problem first emerged in the late 13th century

with Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent, defending the equivocal

theory of being, and John Duns Skodas, a unifical understanding.

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