DOYLC

A while back I blogged on Univocal, Equivocal, and Analogous terms.   Thomas Aquinas wrote about these in Summa Theologica , so it is not really a new topic.   That said, I think that how we deal with these three classes of term in information management is a fairly murky area, and requires the development of practical guidance.   Let’s start with analogous terms.   What is an analogy?   The Free Dictionary provides the following definition: similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/analogy, accessed 2012-06-29]   This is a reasonable start, but I think that we need to understand a lot more about analogous terms in information management.   I would suggest that an analogous term is: a term used to signify a concept that uses all or part of a term which signifies a second concept that is better understood.   There are supposed to be attributes in common between the two concepts (often only one or a very few), or some othe