Examples of using Universals in English and their translations into Swedish
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counted as universals, but if the above theory is valid, they are syntactically more akin to substances.
In the fourteenth century William of Ockham devised a nominalistic system of theology based on his belief that universals were only a convenience of the human mind.
denying the existence of universals, except in language.
Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica amended this ultrarealist position by developing Aristotle's doctrine that universals have a being only in material objects.
abstract universals.
The mentality that thinks in terms of imaginative universals is often called"mytho-poetic," and it is obvious how imaginative universals form the basis both of myth and poetry.
reality of thought and speech shows forth strikingly in its treatment of universals.
The theory of knowledge that maintains that"universals"(general concepts representing the common elements belonging to individuals of the same genus
According to this view, the fact of a resemblance between two individuals does not necessitate a common attribute; the universals one forms in his mind more likely reflect one's own purposes rather than the character of reality.
principles, universals, and particulars.
he was condemned for heresy a few years later because of his nominalist views about universals.
share certain characteristics or'universals.
assert on the contrary that the individual alone exists, and that the universals are not things realized in the universal state in nature, or subsistentia.
known as universals, are without essential
The nominalistic doctrine is opposed to the philosophical theory called extreme realism(see Realism), according to which universals have a real
The following discussion does not claim to enter into the"problem of universals," it only tries to elucidate the(artificially) limited scope of philosophic analysis
generally, that universals such as"red" or"man" have an independent,
has been called the father of nominalism because he argued that universals are derived from one's observation of individuals
There is, indeed, an argument to be made that these imaginative universals stand on a higher level than intelligible universals,
The runes are clearly a system of such imaginative universals, in which certain items found in the lifeworld of our ancestors are taken as exemplars of various fundamental features of existence.