Perfection, Infinity and Univocity

Review of Metaphysics 6 (2):219 - 232 (1952)
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If "being" is usually defined in terms of something roughly equivalent to the Aristotelian categories, are we forced to say that whatever escapes classification by these categories is to that extent beyond or above being? For instance, if "perfection" is used outside of the categories which apply to particular beings and is attributed to a first principle of all things, is "perfection" in this application so different from "perfection" as it applies within the categories that the two applications share nothing in common?

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