  A second topic concerns what are known as “ante-predicaments,” and are introduced by Aristotle at the beginning of Categories: univocity, equivocity, and denomination. Univocity occurs when the same term is predicated in the same sense, as ‘animal’ is of a man and an ox. Equivocity is dived into random equivocity and purposeful equivocity.  The former occurs when the same term is predicated in different senses, as ‘animal’ is of a person and a picture of a person. The latter involves the broader issues of analogical predication.And denomination occurs when the predicated term is derived from another, as ‘grammarian’ is from ‘grammar’ (see Ashworth 1991).