Or might it be that a particular like the Taj, although it indeed has universals as constituents, is something more than its universal constituents?
Might it be that the Taj has a constituent that is not a universal, a "substrate", a particular that is in some sense property-less and that holds the universal constituents of the Taj together that "bundles" them?
Take a universal constituent part of the human condition: our distaste for waiting in a queue.
The effect of carbon black (CB), a universal constituent of smoke derived from the incomplete combustion of organic material, in smokers and non-smokers is less known.
Matsuda et al. [ 18] had focused on rRNA as the target for precise and sensitive quantification of commensal subdominant bacterial populations, since rRNA is a universal constituent of bacterial ribosomes and high copy numbers (10-104 molecules per actively growing cell) are present as housekeeping genes.
Genes encoding ribosomal RNA are universal key constituents of eukaryotic genomes, but the number of loci varies between species.
Genes encoding rDNA are universal key constituents of the eukaryotic genomes as their products form the backbones of the functional cytoplasmic, plastid and mitochondrial ribosomes.
Advocates of the existence of ante res universals, and particularly those who deny that these universals are constituents of particulars, tend to suppose that universals abound that there is not only such a universal as whiteness but such a universal as "being both white and round and either shiny or not made of silver".
Although moral conduct, right belief, and participation in religious institutions are commonly constituent elements of the religious life, cult or worship is generally accepted as the most basic and universal element.
Ante res universals are said by some of their proponents (precisely those who deny that universals are constituents of particulars) to have no relations to space and time but "vicarious" ones: the ante res universal "whiteness" may be said to be present where each white particular is, but only in a way analogous to the way in which the number two is present where each pair of spatial things is.
They will immediately disagree, however, for the universalist will add (a) that there are two distinct states of affairs, that a is red and that b is red, (b) that the former has a and the universal red as constituents, and (c) that the latter also has the universal red as constituent (and differs from the former only by having b rather than a as additional constituent).
