univocity

is (as opposed to equivocacy and analogy) the key to a philosophy of difference because it does not reduce difference to identity, but rather, in univocity ontology, being is said in a single sense of all of which it is said, but it is said of difference itself.

Univocity as opposed to its great rivals, equivocity and analogy is the key to developing a 'philosophy of difference' (Deleuze's term for his project in Difference and Repetition), in which difference would no longer be subordinated to identity. The result is a Spinozism minus substance, a purely modal or differential universe. In univocity, as Deleuze reads Spinoza, the single sense of Being frees a charge of difference throughout all that is. In univocal ontology being is said in a single sense of all of which it is said, but it is said of difference itself.

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