Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*. ”
Thomas Aquinas
From : Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation