since it is a question of language, not of thought. From the
logician's point of view an equivocal term is two or more different
terms, for the definition in each sense would be different.

139. Sometimes a third member is added to the same division under
the head of Analogous Terms. The word 'sweet,' for instance, is
applied by analogy to things so different in their own nature as a
lump of sugar, a young lady, a tune, a poem, and so on. Again, because
the head is the highest part of man, the highest part of a stream is
called by analogy 'the head.' It is plainly inappropriate to make a
separate class of analogous terms. Rather, terms become equivocal by
being extended by analogy from one thing to another.



_Absolute and Relative Terms_.


140. An Absolute term is a name given to a thing without reference
to anything else.

141. A Relative term is a name given to a thing with direct
reference to some other thing.

142. 'Hodge' and 'man' are absolute terms. 'Husband' 'father,'
'shepherd' are relative terms. 'Husband' conveys a direct reference to
'wife,' 'father' to 'Child,' 'shepherd' to 'sheep.' Given one term of
a relation, the other is called the correlative, e.g. 'subject' is
the correlative of 'ruler,' and conversely 'ruler' of 'subject.' The
two terms are also spoken of as a pair of correlatives.