like the terms dhāt ("self"), shayʾ ("thing"), māhiyya ("quiddity"), ḥaqīqa ("reality"), and the like. All such expressions are univocal; and if someone objects that they are only "analogical" because their meanings vary in degree, it should be understood that an analogical (mushakkik) usage is itself a species of general univocal predication, for the word still signifies the common element whether that meaning is realized in unequal measures among its instances or in exactly the same way.