Universa Philosophia

You ask fifthly whether this word canis, as it is equivocal, is common and universal. I purposely said in §.45, in the definition of a common term, that it is proper to a logically universal word: because Logic considers universal things as predicable, but the Summulist considers terms signifying those predicable things. These being posited, I answer by a distinction: an equivocal word as equivocal is not universal nor common in the manner of Logic: because as equivocal it does not have one signification predicable of all things contained under it, but has several altogether diverse significates, and none predicable of another, which is contrary to logical universality. For canis signifies both the terrestrial animal and the star of heaven and the fish, not as they agree in the character of substance, as they are signified by this word corpus, nor as parts of one composite, as Pompelona signifies the Castle, the stations, the streets, and the squares as parts of one city, but it signifies them as altogether dissimilar.