ABSTRACT
The significance of univocity thesis is that it makes being accessible to conceptual comprehension. For Scotus, being is reality that is univocally grasped, and the formal distinctions the people make in order to enable the reader to think about it in its particular finite manifestations pertain to real being. Faced with an analogical universe grounded on such a mystery, the author finds the people in a world of magic or miracle, where interventions from the wholly other may occur at any time without any rational causal logic. Nonetheless, the question remains of whether univocity is used as an attempt to dominate reality by debasing it to what can be humanly defined or, instead, as invention that can be integrated into recognition-and perhaps even a reverencing-of ultimately real. However, both philosophers were still close enough to the wisdom traditions of medieval philosophy to realize that this positive autonomy is possible only with God and in relation to totality of the universe.
